State of New Jersey needs COBOL programmers

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Sun Apr 5 17:05:08 CDT 2020


On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 at 23:02, Paul Koning via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> I'm reminded of a T-shirt company that was around when I was in college, named "Outer products".  They had various math and physics related shirts, for example with Maxwell's equations (your choice of differential or integral form).  Also one with the first 4 lines of the Odyssey.
>
> For computer geeks they had quite a bunch, including this particularly cryptic one for COBOL programmers
>
>  (.)(.)
> IKF4084I

ILLOGICAL USE OF PARENTHESES OR RELATIONALS
           ACCEPTED WITH DOUBTS AS TO MEANING.
...?

The T-shirts are still out there, I am amused to see.



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