17 Feb
2015
17 Feb
'15
2:45 p.m.
On Feb 17, 2015, at 1:27 PM, Mike Stein <mhs.stein
at gmail.com> wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Roe Peterson" <roeapeterson at
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Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: Rich kids are into COBOL
I wouldn't wish a COBOL career on my worst enemy. What a god-awful mess.
And yes, I know how and why it came to be. And all about legacy code bases and
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Good thing Grace Hopper isn't around to read that...
Actually, in ~1974 Grace Hopper gave a lecture at the University of Regina (I got a
nanosecond!) and I asked what she would do differently with cobol. She kind of grimaced
and said "quite a bit".