14 Apr
2020
14 Apr
'20
4:24 a.m.
On Mon, 13 Apr 2020, Dan Cross wrote:
So I imagine that most readers of this list have heard
that a number of
US states are actively looking for COBOL programmers.
I have no plans to move to the US :-) To this day "ADD A TO B GIVING C
COMPUTATIONAL ROUNDED" still leaves me cold.
And it's been said that one of the reasons for COBOL was that
dumb-as-whatever bosses could see what their programmers were writing...
Their job is to manage, not to spy. Heck, they measured productivity by
lines of code per day; you want lots of lines? Sure, I can do that!
-- Dave