Subj : Re: Old Geek Thoughts...
To   : GeekWisdom
From : seeLive
Date : Fri Dec 31 2021 10:43:52

 Ge> COBOL eh? I took a course in university on it, but not much more. I have
 Ge> done a lot of dbase/clipper in

There's another blast from the past... I wrote a fair amount of dbase myself... mostly III & IV... still have the floppies around here somewhere last thing I recall was writing an inventory system for a small company...

 Ge> my time, some of the folks I work with still maintain an old COBOL sytem,
 Ge> though I'm not sure if they
 Ge> really no how to 'code in it'

I used to manage a small team of COBOL GEN programmers... although, I don't think they could code in it either... GEN is a CA product that is for menu-driven development... companies have been trying to bring programming to the masses forever.... maybe someday it will work.

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