Mainframe COBOL » 1970 http://www.mainframecobol.info We know what COBOL stands for Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:50:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Programmer wisdom from the ’70s http://www.mainframecobol.info/2010/04/programmer-wisdom-from-the-70s/ http://www.mainframecobol.info/2010/04/programmer-wisdom-from-the-70s/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:38:57 +0000 Mike http://www.mainframecobol.info/?p=383 “Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.”

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

]]> http://www.mainframecobol.info/2010/04/programmer-wisdom-from-the-70s/feed/ 0 Dr. Codd Was Right: We Don’t Need no Stinkin’ Innovation http://www.mainframecobol.info/2010/02/dr-codd-was-right-we-dont-need-no-stinkin-innovation/ http://www.mainframecobol.info/2010/02/dr-codd-was-right-we-dont-need-no-stinkin-innovation/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:45:14 +0000 Mike http://www.mainframecobol.info/?p=243 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

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