re: #77 dog philosopher

cobol is even more dangerous

When I took my first college programming class I had a choice between FORTRAN and COBOL. I saw that the COBOL people all had shoeboxes full of punchcards, the FORTRAN folks could use 1 rubber band to hold them together. I asked for the one with the “short deck”, (and have been probably playing with one ever since).

RBS
BTW… The Y2K problem was intentionally planned by the COBOL programmers back then. They knew EXACTLY what they were doing, and figured that this way they could make a ton of money about the time they were retiring by coming in and consulting on fixing the problem they created. Prove otherwise!!!!!