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hollysmom

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20. oh pooh - COBOL can be an art if you know what you are doing

Reply to Xipe Totec (Reply #11)

Wed Jan 9, 2013, 02:08 AM

Jan 2013

I used to translate machine language into octal for a while because computer time was more valuable than my time, heh, so I had to act as a compiler to save time for people. Hexadecimal had not yet been invented. times change.
Started out in Fortran, went over to COBOL and a whole bunch of 4GL and alphabet soup of databases. Ended up learning UNIX while managing a staff of over 100 (ineptly).

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