Re: The demise of the Oracle professional?

made that one myself (Identification Division) several times and
we only had 1 compile 'slot' a day.

... and when one of the operators dropped the whole box
of unnumbered punch cards on the floor.

Hee, those were the days ;)

"Richard Foote" <richard.foote_at_bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:ZoS_8.41247$Hj3.122739_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com. ..
> Hi Nick,
>
> Cobol. ahhh memories ....
>
> Speaking of Divisions, I remember studying Cobol
at university and back then
> we only had limited time on the mainframe. You
had 4 compiles to complete
> the assignment and that's it. One of my first
programs which took ages to
> write came back with only one compile error.
Brilliant I thought until I saw
> I spelt Identification Division incorrectly on
the first line and it ignored
> the rest of the program.
>
> Hated Cobol ever since.
>
> Richard
> "Nick" <nick_hobbs_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
>

news:8ca3c5c7.0207220319.49fdc06a_at_posting.google.c om...
> > >
> > > Akshally, in a recent survey Cobol
programmers came up on top for
> > > remuneration in IT in Australia.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Hey Nuno, a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day.
That's about the first
> > positive thing I've heard about Cobol in
years.
> >
> > Now, how many divisions are there?
> >
> > Nick
>
>
Received on Mon Jul 22 2002 - 13:30:58 CDT