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From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [COFF] [TUHS] The 2038 bug...
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 12:07:14 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2101171205460.95135@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210108013935.GE91075@eureka.lemis.com>

On Fri, 8 Jan 2021, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

> Heh.  In 1973 I was once required to abandon assembler, the language of 
> Real Programmers, and write a program in COBOL (in fact, a database 
> front end to COBOL).  I took revenge in the label names.  From 
> http://www.lemis.com/grog/src/GOPU

My favourite COBOL statement is "ADD A TO B GIVING C COMPUTATIONAL ROUNDED".

-- Dave


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2021-01-08  1:39         ` grog
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2021-01-17  1:09             ` lm
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