Board:   [DoveNet] Unix/Linux
Subject: Re: What Is Unix? (was: H
From:    MIKE POWELL
Date:    Wed Jan 14, 2026 08:46

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> Damn, I'd love to start with as/400, because I can't grasp the
> concept of objects and libraries and the like. It's like a
> weird VMS/NT to the extreme. Yes, I'm learning Cobol because
> of an $JOB. For the rest I can just use GCobol for prototyping
> and perfectly fine under my OpenBSD netbook; but in order
> to get employed I truly need at least to know the basics of
> AS/400.

I was briefly a backup operator on an AS/400.  I didn't learn much about
the programming side, but I think they were using RPG on ours.

I was a mainframe COBOL programmer for ~26 years.  They hired me and sent
me to a class.As COBOL reads a lot like english, I found it easy to pick
up.  You do have to remember to define all of your variables in working
storage, which is different than many other languages.

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