To: Mr. Douglas
FORTRAN! Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. We still have PL/1 programs in the Version Control system. We are a Linux shop.
Many young people refuse to spend time on COBOL for fear it might pigeon hole them. That’s why I turned down a high paying job in the 80’s writing TrueBASIC and Quickjob. I am the only surviving COBOL/C programmer and no one even wants to learn it even though our most important batch programs are written in it. I am also the last Oracle Forms developer and our Enterprise system is written in it.
No wonder people are so interested in my physicals.
79 posted on
11/29/2016 6:38:53 AM PST by
AppyPappy
(If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
To: AppyPappy
No wonder people are so interested in my physicals.
Comedy gold! :-D
83 posted on
11/29/2016 6:42:05 AM PST by
Mr. Douglas
(Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
To: AppyPappy
No wonder people are so interested in my physicals.Sounds like you might be due for a raise. A big one. And maybe some more vacation. :-)
88 posted on
11/29/2016 6:44:50 AM PST by
wbill
To: AppyPappy
I know PL/1, COBOL, FORTRAN, C and a number of others. Out of those four listed, I most enjoyed PL/1, which was most like Turbo Pascal, another language/compiler I used in CompSci.
C was cryptic but versatile. I did a parallel and distributed processing grad class in 1/3 C and 2/3 Perl. Enjoyed that.
135 posted on
11/29/2016 9:42:59 AM PST by
ConservativeMind
("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticides, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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