Cashing in on COBOL

[xoggoth]

Maybe I could get back into contracting doing Fortran IV.

[BR14]

Maybe I could get back into contracting doing Fortran IV.

ummmmmmmmmmm, - no

i remember fortran and algol though.

[Lance]

ummmmmmmmmmm, - no

i remember fortran and algol though.

LISP

[BR14]

LISP

yeth, and i'm only thixteen

[Major Hassle]

PRO IV, now there’s one I’m not sorry to see the back of...

[TraceRacing]

Anyone remember Mapper on the Sperry-Univac's from the 70's to mid 80's ?

I won a worldwide competition run by Sperry-Univac for Mapper RID design in 82 or 83... got an all expensed weekend for my wife and me.. happy days.

As to COBOL, my default error trap logic was "If Cat equals Dog goto RSPCA" we were only allowed one goto in a program...and I used to rename my Working Storage to execute the test

[m0n1k3r]

I embedded my comments well, but as per my first post, the organisations I worked with in the 80s and early 90s didn’t make good coding practices mandatory, in fact it wasn’t until 2002 I’d even heard about this ITIL thing.

That is probably because it was called GITIM until shortly before then.

[m0n1k3r]

ummmmmmmmmmm, - no

i remember fortran and algol though.

Smalltalk, C, C++, LISP, Forth and a bit of Prolog. And VAX/VMS and SunOS.

I also have a certificate somewhere from my C++ training in the 80's signed by a Dr Bjarne Stroustrup.

[psychocandy]

Remember the cardinal rule of Cobol not goto ever!

First job - placement year in college - COBOL programmer. Cracking company in newbury called microfocus. 1988 - many moons ago.

[Lance]

Remember the cardinal rule of Cobol not goto ever!

First job - placement year in college - COBOL programmer. Cracking company in newbury called microfocus. 1988 - many moons ago.

Microfocus. The software graveyard of the 21st century.
Haven't they recently bought all of HP's back catalogue of tulipware?