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Nagy Vilmos25-Mar-14 4:24

25-Mar-14 4:24

Roger Wright25-Mar-14 6:42

25-Mar-14 6:42

Nagy Vilmos wrote:
I'd lean towards COBOL over VB6 just for the novelty value.

Not to mention the increased efficiency!

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Johnny J.25-Mar-14 3:40

Johnny J.

25-Mar-14 3:40

No programming questions in the Lounge!!!!! Mad | :mad:

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Chris Maunder25-Mar-14 3:49

Chris Maunder

25-Mar-14 3:49

You know you could do that in one line of Lisp...

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OriginalGriff25-Mar-14 3:51

OriginalGriff

25-Mar-14 3:51

Tho thweet! Thounds like you thould thow us!

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Nagy Vilmos25-Mar-14 3:52

25-Mar-14 3:52

Mandatory XKCD[^] link.

DeathByChocolate25-Mar-14 3:59

25-Mar-14 3:59

Oh drat! .... that's my laptop cover gone! Mad | :mad:

... unless I can come up with an even better post to persuade Griff that I deserve it the most ...

This is for you Griff!!![^] Rose | [Rose]

"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
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Mike Hankey25-Mar-14 4:14

Mike Hankey

25-Mar-14 4:14

Too funny!

You must really want that sleeve?

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DeathByChocolate25-Mar-14 5:46

25-Mar-14 5:46

Well, I do like a challenge (and I know the way to Griff's heart)! Big Grin | :-D

"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
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Roger Wright25-Mar-14 6:45

25-Mar-14 6:45

DeathByChocolate wrote:
I know the way to Griff's heart)

Would that be the sheep, or the chocolate? Wink | ;)

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Nagy Vilmos25-Mar-14 4:17

25-Mar-14 4:17

I'll see you and raise you![^]

DeathByChocolate25-Mar-14 5:48

25-Mar-14 5:48

I fail to see how that, which is basically a balloon badly shaped as a fluffy animal, is better than 4, that is FOUR, perfectly formed chocolate sheep!

Your raise is a fail! Poke tongue | ;-P

"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B

Nagy Vilmos25-Mar-14 6:00

25-Mar-14 6:00

But you see young lady, you can't [REDACTED] chocolate!

DeathByChocolate25-Mar-14 6:02

25-Mar-14 6:02

... all I got from that was "young" and "lady"! Poke tongue | ;-P

"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B

Nueman25-Mar-14 4:15

Nueman

25-Mar-14 4:15

You forgot to put NSFW in the subject line.

What we got here is a failure to communicate

V.25-Mar-14 4:24

25-Mar-14 4:24

Aaaaah my eyes Dead | X|

No kidding, we had COBOL in uni. Two years in a row and two years in a row I woke up screaming of the nightmares I had the night before the exam. (true story actually Sigh | :sigh:

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So griff, for all my suffering, I still deserve the laptop sleeve no Poke tongue | ;-P

V.

(MQOTD rules and previous solutions)

OriginalGriff wrote:
V is absolutely right

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter25-Mar-14 4:24

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

25-Mar-14 4:24

Now that was a real hit - I didn't saw COBOL for over 15 years...You made my day (or what left of it)!

I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)

Tim Carmichael25-Mar-14 5:35

Tim Carmichael

25-Mar-14 5:35

My eyes are burning... haven't had to look at COBOL since college...

BobJanova25-Mar-14 6:26

BobJanova

25-Mar-14 6:26

I don't understand this. I think that makes me young and lucky.

Roger Wright25-Mar-14 6:49

25-Mar-14 6:49

Brilliant! Big Grin | :-D

I haven't done/seen COBOL since 1975! It took 200 Hollerith cards to do a 'Hello World' program, and my version generated 152 errors while compiling. The computer center expert that 'owned' the sacred COBOL manual could not identify one thing wrong with my code. That was my first and last attempt to use it, and I've never missed it. Dead | X|

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Nagy Vilmos25-Mar-14 7:00

25-Mar-14 7:00

For five years I was a fully paid up COBOL CODE MONKEY, it took me ages to stop using capitals.

Roger Wright25-Mar-14 7:07

25-Mar-14 7:07

Oh, you poor man! That explains so much about the way you turned out... OMG | :OMG:

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Steve Mayfield25-Mar-14 10:49

Steve Mayfield

25-Mar-14 10:49

Probably left off the '.' at the end of a line Wink | ;)

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Roger Wright25-Mar-14 10:58

25-Mar-14 10:58

Very likely true, Steve. A very picky language, COBOL is!

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Things have GOTTEN bad

Nagy Vilmos25-Mar-14 3:12