Dilbert Teached COBOL
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http://www.dilbert.com/fast/1998-10-14/[^]
Everything makes sense in someone's mind
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http://www.dilbert.com/fast/1998-10-14/[^]
Everything makes sense in someone's mind
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Dilbert has no idea! COBOL is written in pencil, and you delete with an eraser.
Bob Emmett
Bob Emmett wrote:
COBOL is written in pencil
bah! erasers.... COBOL is written on punch cards with a hand-held hole punch and fed manually card by card into a card reader that shreds the cards on the way out... if you mess up, you have to start over again punching from card 1.... ;P
_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....
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Bob Emmett wrote:
COBOL is written in pencil
bah! erasers.... COBOL is written on punch cards with a hand-held hole punch and fed manually card by card into a card reader that shreds the cards on the way out... if you mess up, you have to start over again punching from card 1.... ;P
_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....
El Corazon wrote:
COBOL is written on punch cards
Punch Cards, you had punch cards?!! We had to sell our bodies for empty cereal packets, which were then shredded by the rats in our cells.
El Corazon wrote:
hand-held hole punch
Hand-Held Hole Punch?!! You jammy b'tard! We'd have given both our arms for a hand-held hole punch. We had to take the shredded packets and knit punch cards (using the petrified tails of dead rats), dropping a stitch wherever a hole was needed.
El Corazon wrote:
a card reader that shreds the cards on the way out
Our card reader was an array of toothless rats (11 x 80) [edit: aaagh! (12 x 80) :-O ] that licked the cards (redolent of breakfast cereal, you will recall). Where there was a hole, a current passed through the rat (providing another petrified rat tail). Always seemed to me to be a long winded approach to pest extermination.
Bob Emmett
modified on Thursday, May 27, 2010 8:33 AM
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http://www.dilbert.com/fast/1998-10-14/[^]
Everything makes sense in someone's mind
Don't you mean "Dilbert taught COBOL"?
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