Hey, that's a hardware description language!
If you were perverse enough to pervert it to run some kind of script, I'd call you out as some kind of pervert!
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I nominate SAP ABAP because I can say with authority that SAP has lost its way and become shit-tastric.
For me, it was PL/I, a loonnnggg time ago.
$79K being "comfortable" in California? In the cities that most likely have the institutions needing COBOL coding?
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
PERL huh? I write it every day, even today. (Data processing with no GUI. Reformatting data, slapping it into a database, and generating reports.) There’s also Python (for NEW development), and BASH to run things.
I was learning BASIC in high school, and teaching myself 6502 assembly language at night.
I used something called FORMAC which was a superset of PL/1 and compiled on the PL/1 optimizing compiler. I can’t find it anywhere now. I was looking for an implementation that would run on a PC... or at least on something that would run on a mainframe emulator... I think the emulator is called Hercules.
I learned COBOL, RPG2 and BASIC in 1975, never used it.
Does this mean that MUMPS and SNOBOL survive?
Hey, that's a hardware description language!
If you were perverse enough to pervert it to run some kind of script, I'd call you out as some kind of pervert!
“teaching myself 6502 assembly language at night.”
Left programming long ago, but remember doing that too.
I still run an old Perl program - a modification of one I wrote in 1999. Probably time to convert it to Python. :)
I did manage to occasionally get turn times in low teens of minutes, but only at 3 AM, and that only if The High Priest on duty was bored or feeling generous, and I promised to never tell anyone. So I never did, until now...
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I took COBOL, Fortran, Assembler, and RPG II when I was in college working on my data processing degree. The first job I got in IT was to batch process COBOL-based databases and recompile them into a newer format. The program was already pre-written and debugged, all I had to do was use command lines at the prompt to execute whatever batches I wanted, then format and print them into a corresponding spreadsheet. I veered off into the desktop and network realm, but my brother-in-law had just finished his degree and got a job in ‘98 or’99 to pull old databases and programs, and update it into a newer programming language that wouldn’t cripple the old COBOL-based stuff in the process. (Y2K pearl-clutching and all that - I worked a contract for that, too.) I remember employers offering fat bucks to old retirees who were utilizing COBOL-driven mainframes back in the ‘60’s, then cashed out in the 80’s and 90’s, took their pensions and their Social Security, and were out on Caribbean cruises half the year. Some places were paying programmers by the line, not as salary. If you were fast, they’d load you up with as much work as you could handle, and my brother-in-law-had fingers that were greased lightning. For almost two years, he was pulling down a hard six figures because of that and his ability to focus. Afterwards, he said he was glad it was over. The money was stoopid good, but the job was so high-intensity and production driven, he was just frazzled to the core. By The Lords of COBOL, I can’t believe that language is still around. I don’t remember a single switch or command, but I can still see the textual formatting in my mind. *Brrrr*
“Add English”
I suppose you object to replacing “Mom” with “Birthing Person”? Get with the program!
I did a data conversion for a company that was actually splitting into two entities. I took the file sorted it by something in the file and punched it to a card deck. Split the card deck and gave each to the lead of each of the entities.
It’s in your video cards and runs GPUs for AI and gaming.
I prefer Pascal (Delphi,Lazarus) but most of what I do I do using plain old C.
I have enjoyed, toiled and suffered using the following...in chronological order of adoption.
BASIC
6502 asm
PL1
COBOL
Pascal
X86 asm
C
ARM asm
When I was in college, we still registered for classes with IBM cards.
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Just thinking about Programming gives me a headache.
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