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Sadly that means I can't go back to gawk at the old survey to see where pick 1 ended up before getting shut down. 
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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And it's not me ... 
I'm not sure if I should envy or pity you.
Envy because you probably have serious job security since you are pretty much irreplaceable for legacy systems, but pity because you're pretty much irreplaceable for legacy systems ... So you don't get much else. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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One of them is me.
I used to do FORTRAN IV and Fortran-77 a lot (I liked it). I also had to do a little COBOL and now, again, I have had to do some COBOL (reading the source code only) to fix a problem with the mainframe part of one of our systems.
Happily I do C# mostly - my favourite language. It used to be Rexx but now it's definitely C#.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I haven't recently done any FORTRAN so I've had to recluse myself from this option. However, I was *this* close to having to do some recently (long story, requires beer)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Envy me because I retire soon and pity my employer? (Fortran, but I get some C# time too)
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We have a desktop application that is commercially sold to businesses. It uses COBOL for much of it's older processing of binary data storage files. Then we have Delphi for a front end. And then we use C# for all the new stuff (integrations, new features, etc.), which requires a COM interface with the Delphi. We actually embed the C# UI into the Delphi UI via OLE. Fun!
Bond
Keep all things a simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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I'm still in the BCS FORTRAN SIG (in fact it is the only BCS SIG that I am a member of) but it looks very foreign to me as it has changed a lot since I last used it, probably at the end of the last millennium. It was my first High Level Language (early 1970s) and it was also how I met my wife (she had to learn it at Uni and was struggling, so I was called in to help). Suffice to say, she passed and we've just celebrated our 40th Wedding Anniversary.
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