selenau837
Can still see y'all......
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Rich said:Becoming a sap?
A COBOL programmer.
Rich said:Becoming a sap?
Kraj said:CoBOL? Say it isn't so???
the page isn't long enoughselenau837 said:Why?
Rich said:the page isn't long enough
Rich and I only offer intelligent discussion, unfortunately some people find the truth a bitter pill. It is not in our nature to antagonise people.selenau837 said:Think you, Rich and Col can keep from killin' each other for a bit?
MsLady said:I was forced to learn Cobol in school, about 4 yrs ago. Imagine that. I haven't used it for a single day since i've been out of college. The program is so ancient, nobody even talks about it anymore. I am actually tempted to take it out my resume cos it's beginnign to embarrase me
Kraj said:
"Amazing Grace" was born in 1906. She went on the earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics at a time when women seldom went to college. She joined the WAVES in WWII. When she retired in 1986 at the age of 80, with the rank of Rear Admiral, she was the oldest member of the Navy on active duty. Along the way she also managed to pioneer the field of computing, becoming a programmer on the Mark I at Harvard Labs during WWII. She is recognized for her contributions to technology, has become known as the "Mother of Cobol," and, in 1969, was named the Data Processing Management Associations' "Man of the Year"! Grace Hopper died on January 1, 1992, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
supercharge said:I'd like to learn Cobol too. Any recs on where to find info about it?
Thanks
rak said:You might start with this :
000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
000200 PROGRAM-ID. HELLOSelena.
000300
000400*
000500 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
000600 CONFIGURATION SECTION.
000700 SOURCE-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
000800 OBJECT-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
000900
001000 DATA DIVISION.
001100 FILE SECTION.
001200
100000 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
100100
100200 MAIN-LOGIC SECTION.
100300 BEGIN.
100400 DISPLAY " " LINE 1 POSITION 1 ERASE EOS.
100500 DISPLAY "Hello Selena!" LINE 15 POSITION 10.
100600 STOP RUN.
100700 MAIN-LOGIC-EXIT.
100800 EXIT.
Sample Run
Hello Selena!
or
http://www.csis.ul.ie/COBOL/examples/default.htm#SimplePrograms
KenHigg said:Sweeeeeet
Congrats!!!
Have you told your old boss to take a hike yet?