COBOL, if only it was history, no sad to say Oracle still uses COBOL. I worked at a company that loved COBOL so much it wrote it's own COBOL compiler which only begs the question WHAT THE HELL FOR. I now work at a College, the student information application uses COBOL HMMM how progressive. Now one could think, well thats only the university you work at, oh not so somehow this application has made it big time in the university circles UofM, St. Thomas and Hamlin to name a few. COBOL should somehow refer to how to keep old U.S. programmers employed which is a good thing now days. On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome at real-time.com> wrote: > On 03/30 01:56 , Steve Cayford wrote: >> Don't forget COBOL. I guess that would be the domain of legacy banking >> systems. > > COBOL was an enlightening experience for me. > In much the same way that beating your head against a brick wall enlightens > you on the benefits of not beating your head against a brick wall. It feels > really good when you stop. > > -- > Carl Soderstrom > Systems Administrator > Real-Time Enterprises > www.real-time.com > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >