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To: markomalley

My first work out of college was as a programmer. I was writing in “MUMPS” and then “MUMPS-11” on DEC PDP platforms, then hopped to a different company writing for an investment accounting solution in FORTRAN-IV on PRIME mini-computers (remember them?). We ported that application to IBM mainframes - all 6 million lines of code. Some idiot of the day thought ADABAS was the best database for us to use - I remember it didn’t store real-numbers natively, so we had to write our own subroutines to pack/un-pack any real numbers into text fields.

That was a time when programming was an art, and every day was marked by creative solutions and work-arounds for system limitations.


16 posted on 07/06/2015 5:26:41 AM PDT by Be Free (I believe in gun control. The more people that control their own guns, the safer we'll all be.)
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To: Be Free

Technically, I think they were PR1ME, not PRIME.

;-P


42 posted on 07/06/2015 7:56:31 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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