Posted by Mike on Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 290 views
The mid 1990’s was an economic boom time for the aging population of programmers versed in what many people classed as now obsolete COBOL programs written in the 60’s and 70’s. These computer cold war warriors were rallied into action as the dreaded year 2000 approached. It was feared that on the stroke of midnight December/31/1999 the world was going to experience a meltdown of catastrophic proportions.
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Posted by Mike on Monday, March 22, 2010 - 278 views
… with the knowledge and experience to maintain systems like the NEAXs must be similar to banks having to pay top dollar for retired COBOL programmers. … READ MORE
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 628 views
Considering these challenges, one is not surprised whenever a cobol programmer decides to stick with legacy programming skills.
That is why I am dedicating this post to helping cobol mainframe programmers transition their skills or careers. READ MORE
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Posted by Mike on Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 394 views
Assembler: A formula I race car. Very fast but difficult to drive and maintain.
FORTRAN II: A Model T Ford. Once it was the king of the road.
FORTRAN IV: A Model A Ford.
FORTRAN 77: a six-cylinder Ford Fairlane with standard transmission and no seat belts.
COBOL: A delivery van. It’s bulky and ugly but it does the work.
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Posted by Mike on - 996 views
APL is a write-only language.
In C we had to code our own bugs. In C++ we can inherit them.
C gives you enough rope to hang yourself. C++ also gives you the tree object to tie it to.
With C you can shoot yourself in the leg. With C++ you can reuse the bullet.
A computer without COBOL and Fortran is like a piece of chocolate cake without ketchup and mustard.
PL/I is for programmers who can’t decide whether to write in COBOL or Fortran.
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 465 views
This mainframe database pilot fish doesn’t have to deal much with dumbness from users. But application programmers? That’s a different matter. The problem? …
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This was back in 1992, in the days of COBOL. We had no concept of automated unit tests, so all our testing was done manually. I can only imagine how stable …
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Posted by Mike on Monday, January 4, 2010 - 274 views
It’s hard to believe that 10 years have passed since the dreaded Millennium Bug put fear into the hearts of technology specialists, software developers, business executives, and legal departments everywhere.
Fears of massive system failures abounded, including worries about errant missile launches thanks to computers confused about what century we were in. But the calendar flipped from Dec. 31, 1999, to Jan. 1, 2000, with the world relatively unscathed from the Y2K switchover. MORE
