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I recently got drawn into working on some COBOL code on a mainframe. Some of the code had comments indicating it hadn't been updated since 1995 and it made me realise that I hadn't worked on COBOL since 1985 (1984 actually writing any). So, nostalgia from about 35 years ago kicked in, especially when using a 3270 terminal (emulation) which I last worked on, actually designing and writing an emulator built into another product, in 2002.
How many of you have written code that you came back to years later, or at least worked in an environment or with a language you hadn't used for centuries (or it felt like it)?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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In a way, all the time. My old Elf is still working, but gets a younger brother and an operating system after 40 years. All the time I have to dig out code going back to 1976, like the software/bit banging 300 baud RS232 or the cassette load or save routines.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I had been tinkering with the C64 Mini over the holidays...does that count?
I found myself surprised I still remembered what POKE 53280,0 and POKE 53281,0 did.
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Nothing so grand, only been paid to do C and C# -- and SQL -- so I still try to keep my C-fu ready.
Similarly, I bought some DEC equipment so I can keep up with OpenVMS.
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Yep, my old FORTRAN code seems to catch up with me every 10 years or so.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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...I'm more upset about forest creatures and their unwillingness to clean the house! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Next you will probably be telling us that you are Hamlet, Prince of Denmark[^] 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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"There is something rotten in the state of Denmark" 
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You've seen my reply to the post in The Soapbox, I gather... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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...now I'm not so sure... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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...And I thought: "I can't turn that down"!
Almost weekend. Yeay!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Especially if it goes to eleven!
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... thinking outside the box[^] 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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First, a +
Please note, however, using the term "thinking outside of the boxes" is, in itself, an indication of thinking inside the box. Except for the first person who ever said it.
Personally, I can only comment when hearing this is "What Box?".
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Not needed to be a technical answer, but, I am working on a new project where I am currently at a stage where I need to provide the real-time information about the fare of several transport options, like airfare, public or railway ticket information.
So far what I have explored is, that either you pay for an API—which is normally too much, for just a startup—or you utilize options like web scraping—which are of course abiding the robots.txt and privacy concerns to be legal in normal cases. Although we do not require a complete real-time solution, a day-by-day scraping is suitable enough for us, but I think there will be a better option than this.
Have any of you ever got any experience with such a situation, where you had to deal with real-time ticket information, I would appreciate if you can share your thoughts and findings. Or if you know of any service that supports this kind of feature, I would appreciate if you can direct me in the right direction.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Have you had a look around https://rapidapi.com/
I notice SkyScanner is on there.
For public transport though, I assume you;re thinking of starting in an area/region rather than global?
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Thank you, I already have Skyscanner in my list, however they require some sort of a commercial agreement which I still need to discuss with rest of the team.
And yes, just in Pakistan. Public transport basically are a few major names in Pakistan, Daewoo, Bilal Travels, Faisal Movers, etc. which we can quickly update by hand too. But for the airfare (international), and railway (maybe, global), is a lot of information to tackle right now by hand.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Do you find cow jokes udderly ridiculous?
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Say what you will about cows, but I respect them professionally as they are outstanding in their field.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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They are indeed the cream of the crop, but the steaks could not be higher.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: but the steaks could not be higher.
or more delicious.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Are you trying to milk this for a few laughs?
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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No, and your insinuation sounds like bull to me.
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As Bart would say "Don't have a cow, man!"
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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I mean the crying about all our programming languages being so inadequate and difficult and them being more a matter of the programmer's preferences than anything else:
Quote: Most programmers have a favorite language or two, and this is not a rational matter. There are many different computer languages -in fact thousands -but what they all have in common is acting on series of instructions. Beyond that, every language is different. So for each language, the questions are WHAT ARE THE INSTRUCTIONS? and HOW DO THEY FIT TOGETHER?
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Quote: ...Once you know a language you can cast spells in it ; but that doesn't mean it's easy. A spell cast in a computer language will make the computer do what you want -IF it's possible to do it with that computer; IF it's possible to do it in that language; IF you used the vocabulary and rules of the language correctly; and IF you laid out in the spell a plan that would effectively do what you had in mind. BUT if you make a mistake in casting your spell, that is a BUG. (As you see from the IF s above, many types of bug are possible.) Program bugs can cause unfortunate results....
IF you are not motivated to quit your job and become cangaroo trainer in Australia now, then be amused and know that I just found this in a digital copy of BYTE magazine from 8/1976. Stop crying already. All you ever need is an oldfashioned C compiler and you are ready to go to accomplish anything the copmputer is capable of. Ok, a nice stack of libraries makes things easier...
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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