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From: Alistair on 12 Aug 2010 06:57 On Aug 12, 1:02 am, "Pete Dashwood" <dashw...(a)removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote: > It's odd. I used to get incensed by Foodman's posts here but now it doesn't > bother me in the least. Maybe I'm getting old, maybe I don't care as much > about COBOL as I once did, maybe living in peaceful serenity at home is > calming my restless spirit :-) The first reason, I think, old man.
From: Pete Dashwood on 12 Aug 2010 07:12 Alistair wrote: > On Aug 12, 1:02 am, "Pete Dashwood" > <dashw...(a)removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote: >> It's odd. I used to get incensed by Foodman's posts here but now it >> doesn't bother me in the least. Maybe I'm getting old, maybe I don't >> care as much about COBOL as I once did, maybe living in peaceful >> serenity at home is calming my restless spirit :-) > > > The first reason, I think, old man. Cheeky monkey! :-) Sadly, you may be right... Pete. -- "I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."
From: Alistair on 12 Aug 2010 09:53 On Aug 12, 12:12 pm, "Pete Dashwood" <dashw...(a)removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote: > Alistair wrote: > > On Aug 12, 1:02 am, "Pete Dashwood" > > <dashw...(a)removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote: > >> It's odd. I used to get incensed by Foodman's posts here but now it > >> doesn't bother me in the least. Maybe I'm getting old, maybe I don't > >> care as much about COBOL as I once did, maybe living in peaceful > >> serenity at home is calming my restless spirit :-) > > > The first reason, I think, old man. > > Cheeky monkey! :-) > Cheeky APE if you don't mind. Monkeys are sooooo New World.
From: Howard Brazee on 12 Aug 2010 10:33 On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:02:57 +1200, "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood(a)removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote: >What is familiar to Tony Dilworth, however, is a form of COBOL code which is >unfamiliar to most of us. It works for him. > >It's odd. I used to get incensed by Foodman's posts here but now it doesn't >bother me in the least. Maybe I'm getting old, maybe I don't care as much >about COBOL as I once did, maybe living in peaceful serenity at home is >calming my restless spirit :-) Whatever, I looked at this code and actually >smiled. Doc's response made me chuckle. Some people get mellow as they age. Others get more Righteous. I very much appreciate the former. -- "In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found, than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department." - James Madison
From: Howard Brazee on 12 Aug 2010 10:36
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:44:24 -0700 (PDT), Richard <riplin(a)Azonic.co.nz> wrote: >Did you really use commas in the procedure division ? These are a rich >form of bugtrap that should have been eliminated in Cobol'61. Printers >and most editors fail to distinguish adequately between '.' and ',' >leading to one being mistaken for the other. At one time, that mattered, especially with old impact printers. But it has been a long time since I worked at a place that printed off copies of programs, and it's easy (even with my eyes), to distinguish commas and periods on-line. -- "In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found, than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department." - James Madison |