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Recently I decided to learn COBOL, for no other reason than the fact that there are a lot of mainframe installations out there and it’s the mainstay language for many of them. This article brought to you by the 1960s
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I fell asleep before finishing a code example...
Don't let your mind wander too far.
It's too small to be let out alone.
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Thanks for the link,'Gold Mine'.
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I did some Cobol a few years back.
No thanks. Not again.
"Quote: t’s a beautiful, expressive language that was cool then and is very cool now.
LMAO. It's one thing to "learn" Cobol to write a quick hello world app. It's another to write/read/maintain Cobol applications of years of code.
modified 21-Feb-18 0:59am.
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In college, from 1982 to 1985, we had to learn COBOL; 3 semesters of it. At the time, it was still the powerhouse business language. We also learned BASIC, PASCAL, VAX Assembler and RPG. Of all of these, the only one I absolutely DON'T want to ever work in is RPG.
So.. come exam time, we had to hand write - on paper with pencil - our COBOL programs with program controlled pagination.
Can you imagine the horror if today's college students were told to hand write an application; no typing it in, no Intellisense, no debugging... just write it out by hand. And that means no insertions of lines for logic you forgot to add, unless of course, you want to rewrite the entire page.
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I did it in all my exams barring one. Paper and copiative paper - the copy would remain to us to transfer on PC, debug it and send it back fully working in order to have our tests evaluated.
And I'm talking about 2007-2012.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Tim Carmichael wrote: So.. come exam time, we had to hand write - on paper with pencil - our COBOL programs with program controlled pagination.
Can you imagine the horror if today's college students were told to hand write an application; no typing it in, no Intellisense, no debugging... just write it out by hand. And that means no insertions of lines for logic you forgot to add, unless of course, you want to rewrite the entire page.
Same for me, only difference... luckily for me was C, not COBOL
Even more luckily... next semester was Visual C++ and we did have computers in the exam.
(Timeline 1998 - 2001)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: This article brought to you by the 1960s
Is that the name of some new drug? You'd need to be higher than a kite to think this was a good idea. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Gartner predicts that IT staff will have fewer technical roles available to them as the cloud gains traction. That’s just not true Jack of all trades, something, something, something
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me thinks this author should have used technology to proof read. Granted spellcheck would not have helped because the spelling isn't wrong, but I'm guessing its not what he meant.
Quote: IT staff who once only focused on systems in the datacenter now focus on systems in the public cloud as well. This means that while they understand how to operate the LAMP stacks in their enterprise datacenters, as well as virtualization, they also understand how to do the same things in a pubic cloud.
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I should note, I am not the grammar police all tho I am pro grammar  .. this oops just seemed interesting.
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Today, machine learning is at the heart of many commercial applications and research projects. By introducing Datalore, we’re extending the JetBrains product family to the machine learning-specific environment in Python. Those two are always getting into hijinks
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Installation has finally begun on Jeff Bezos’ 10,000-year clock, a project that the Amazon CEO has invested $42 million in (along with a hollowed-out mountain in Texas that Bezos intends for a Blue Origin spaceport), with the goal of building a mechanical clock that will run for 10 millennia. "Time keeps on slippin, slippin, slippin, Into the future"
I can think of better things he could do with $42MM (and not all of them involve giving it to me)
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Will anyone still be around to read it in 10K years?
Don't let your mind wander too far.
It's too small to be let out alone.
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10,000 years from now:
Person A: What's that?
Person B: A clock that stopped working 9,999 years ago.
Person A: What was it for?
Person B: If we knew, we'd know the answers to the universe.
Person A: Perhaps it was just some big ego trip.
Person B: Probably.
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The incentive is there for any government to ‘be Satoshi’ and invent/control Bitcoin. The prime candidate must be the US government, but potential others include Russia and China.
Does make you wonder. 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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The gov't (any gov't) is too stupid and mired in politics to come up with anything as sophisticated as bitcoin and, in particular, the underlying technologies (though most of those techs existed already, yet another reason why gov't wouldn't be involved, why use existing concepts when we can spend millions of dollars of taxpayer money to re-invent the hammer?)
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The gov't came up with Tor... so yes, very likely is the US government.
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Yes of course it is the CIA. They also came up with this forum, to keep an eye on us.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Donathan.Hutchings wrote: Does make you wonder.
No, it doesn't; the inventor is not the one who controls bitcoin.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: No, it doesn't; the inventor is not the one who controls bitcoin.
usually true in other fields too
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Point is that it cannot be controlled; making the article a lot of nonsense
It is also something that is explained often and hardly a mistake if the person writing the article read anything about the subject. As is, it sounds like BS that exists to drive sentiment.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Point is that it cannot be controlled; making the article a lot of nonsense
I didn't even read it 
I was just agreeing with you, only giving your sentence a bit wider validity
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Nelek wrote: I didn't even read it
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