Anyone know COBOL? Go help California out of the shitter
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Anyone know COBOL? Go help California out of the shitter
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Re: Anyone know COBOL? Go help California out of the shitter
#2COBOL programmer for cash? Been there, done that. I hated it so much I left to work on a Pick/BASIC system.
Re: Anyone know COBOL? Go help California out of the shitter
#3COBOL programmer for cash? Been there, done that. I hated it so much I left to work on a Pick/BASIC system.
I've worked with many technologies (including COBOL), but my favorite is still Pick/BASIC. I thought I was the only Pick person here at hacker news.
astrec, where are you and what are you working on? Answer here or contact me off-line. Also, please put your email address on your public profile.
Re: Anyone know COBOL? Go help California out of the shitter
#4sigh
What's the deal with your headline? How about if you show a little class and not use profanity next time? The headline in the original article is "No end in sight for Calfornia’s budget woes". Why would you change it to "Go help California out of the shitter"? Is that supposed to be funny?
If you want to behave like a fool please go back to Reddit or Digg. Garbage like this isn't welcome here.
Re: Anyone know COBOL? Go help California out of the shitter
#5COBOL programmer for cash? Been there, done that. I hated it so much I left to work on a Pick/BASIC system.
I've worked with many technologies (including COBOL), but my favorite is still Pick/BASIC. I thought I was the only Pick person here at hacker news. astrec, where are you and what are you working on? Answer here or contact me off-line. Also, please put your email address on your public profile.
It's astonishing how many people you meet that have worked with Pick, and perhaps less so the percentage of those who love it. I know a whole stack of people using UniVerse and UniData.
As for me, I worked with AP on SVR4 (NCR)and D3 on UnixWare in the 90s. Actually there were some old ADDS boxes kicking around too. Inventory management and accounting. I quit to join a dot com in Feb 2000. Clever of me, eh?
Right now I'm in Australia for the most part (have a place in NYC too). Not working on anything particularly important, but I am getting the itch.
Re: Anyone know COBOL? Go help California out of the shitter
#6Come on people, COBOL is just another language. Any half decent programmer can pick it up in a few days and fix up that stuff. It's probably just some nice internal politics to try and discredit people and force a hugely expensive rewrite of the system.
Re: Anyone know COBOL? Go help California out of the shitter
#7Come on people, COBOL is just another language. Any half decent programmer can pick it up in a few days and fix up that stuff. It's probably just some nice internal politics to try and discredit people and force a hugely expensive rewrite of the system.
It's not about a rewrite. It's about state employees coming up with an excuse not to follow the governator's order to knock back wages. It's a just a lie to get out of doing something that politically they don't want to do.
Re: Anyone know COBOL? Go help California out of the shitter
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've worked with many technologies (including COBOL), but my favorite is still Pick/BASIC. I thought I was the only Pick person here at hacker news. astrec, where are you and what are you working on? Answer here or contact me off-line. Also, please put your email address on your public profile.
It's astonishing how many people you meet that have worked with Pick, and perhaps less so the percentage of those who love it. I know a whole stack of people using UniVerse and UniData. As for me, I worked with AP on SVR4 (NCR)and D3 on UnixWare in the 90s. Actually there were some old ADDS boxes kicking around too. Inventory management and accounting. I quit to join a dot com in Feb 2000. Clever of me, eh? Right now…
Any MANTIS people out there? Not a MANTIS coder myself, but I used to work for the vendor.
Re: Anyone know COBOL? Go help California out of the shitter
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've worked with many technologies (including COBOL), but my favorite is still Pick/BASIC. I thought I was the only Pick person here at hacker news. astrec, where are you and what are you working on? Answer here or contact me off-line. Also, please put your email address on your public profile.
It's astonishing how many people you meet that have worked with Pick, and perhaps less so the percentage of those who love it. I know a whole stack of people using UniVerse and UniData. As for me, I worked with AP on SVR4 (NCR)and D3 on UnixWare in the 90s. Actually there were some old ADDS boxes kicking around too. Inventory management and accounting. I quit to join a dot com in Feb 2000. Clever of me, eh? Right now…
Speaking of historical mainframe languages, any MANTIS people out there? Not a MANTIS coder myself, but I used to work for the vendor.