To: AppyPappy
When I was in college, we had a great teacher in the computer science field.
He said, “With Assembler you tell the computer what to do. With Fortran you ask it to do things. With COBOL you have to get on your knees and beg.”
26 posted on
04/11/2017 6:41:37 AM PDT by
UCANSEE2
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To: UCANSEE2
32 posted on
04/11/2017 7:02:48 AM PDT by
blueplum
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To: UCANSEE2
He said, “With Assembler you tell the computer what to do. With Fortran you ask it to do things. With COBOL you have to get on your knees and beg.” That there is FUNNY!!
Back in the late 70s and into the 80s I ended up learning all three languages and now that I see this quote I have to agree.
45 posted on
04/11/2017 7:27:46 AM PDT by
OldMissileer
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