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To: COBOL2Java
Anyone that knows what COBOL or FORTRAN is... IS OLD.

/johnny

18 posted on 03/29/2013 10:28:10 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

We still have a course in FORTRAN here.


19 posted on 03/29/2013 10:29:11 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: JRandomFreeper
Anyone that knows what COBOL or FORTRAN is... IS OLD.

What's that you say? Speak up, sonny!

36 posted on 03/29/2013 10:43:45 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
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ALGOL ~ and a number of others ~ take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_languages Many of them are old friends


40 posted on 03/29/2013 10:46:32 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: JRandomFreeper

I learned COBAL in college and Asembler language. Used a bit of COBAL in my early carer but got in with a bunch of UNIX guys and been doing that for over 20 years now.


45 posted on 03/29/2013 10:58:15 AM PDT by History Repeats (sic transit gloria mundi)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Weren't they characters on Battlestar Galactica. :)
69 posted on 03/29/2013 11:43:46 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: JRandomFreeper
Anyone that knows what ... FORTRAN is... IS OLD.

I disavow any knowledge of FORmula TRANslation. Won't admit to being old, but my age is stuck in a DO loop that increments with a stepsize of 1...

Since I wasn't privy to the source code, I don't know how many iterations before the count is satisfied and it jumps to the next line, which is and END statement if I remember correctly...

105 posted on 03/29/2013 3:05:50 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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