Programmer wisdom from the ’70s

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, April 7, 2010 - 339 views

“Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.”

(illustration by programmers of the 1970s, showing difficulty of programming idioms logically)

Dr. Codd Was Right: We Don’t Need no Stinkin’ Innovation

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 1 views

The web, so far, is semantically implemented exactly the same way as COBOL/3270 code, circa 1970. You have a dumb datastore, managed by bespoke code, talking to a semi-smart block mode terminal. The only difference is some syntax (COBOL … MORE