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Happy 60th Birthday: COBOL


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8 hours ago, Just Joshin' said:

Took both COBOL and FORTRAN in collrge, preferred FORTRAN.

 

27 minutes ago, \GoBillsInDallas/ said:

 

So basically, in college you went both ways.

 

Sounds like he was quite binary in college.  In those days it was hard to be open about it.

 

 

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the labs had us commerce students with BASIC programming and the science and engineering students (COBOL/FORTRAN/WHATEVER)

 

BASIC would tell us the lines with errors and we'd fix them and get it done in 15 minutes flat

 

the others would sit there for hours waiting for the 1 or 0 result and then there'd be great roars of triumph or the F word louder than a 747

 

quite entertaining to be there for those moments

 

 

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13 minutes ago, Limeaid said:

APL was my first computer language, I'd say it was Greek to me but you would misunderstand. 

Took FORTRAN in college as well as other languages.

Never took a class for COBOL but had jobs where I needed to debug it. 

I learned APL as part of a linear algebra class. It was a one semester novelty. Only a few computers in the computer lab had the special APL keyboard, which occasionally caused some added stress if none of the special keyboards were available. APL used special symbols for vector and matrix functions about 30 years before MATLAB came along with similar intrinsic functions. 

APL = A Programming Language.   

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