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    Kent Sharkey
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    Computerworld[^]:

    These folks won't migrate. The reason probably isn't what you're thinking.

    "Why can't you just die?!"

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      Computerworld[^]:

      These folks won't migrate. The reason probably isn't what you're thinking.

      "Why can't you just die?!"

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      Ron Anders
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      "Why can't you just die?!" Thanks, to made me spill coffee on my clean hoodie. :mad:

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      • K Kent Sharkey

        Computerworld[^]:

        These folks won't migrate. The reason probably isn't what you're thinking.

        "Why can't you just die?!"

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        DaveX86
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        It's not that bad...makes me want to dust off my old COBOL text books :)

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          Computerworld[^]:

          These folks won't migrate. The reason probably isn't what you're thinking.

          "Why can't you just die?!"

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          Mark_Wallace
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          Kent Sharkey wrote:

          "Why can't you just die?!"

          Remember having said that, the next time a new programming language is announced. And remember these examples: - C#, because we really need another programming language. - Java, because there's a world shortage of programming languages.

          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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            It's not that bad...makes me want to dust off my old COBOL text books :)

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            Dan Neely
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            So you're finally replacing that wobbly table they've been propping up for the last eleventeen years.

            Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

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            • K Kent Sharkey

              Computerworld[^]:

              These folks won't migrate. The reason probably isn't what you're thinking.

              "Why can't you just die?!"

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              Dan Neely
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              IF IBM has 90% of the market with 3500 customers; how the elephant are the 3 alsorans managing to keep their hardware lines running? :confused:

              Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

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                IF IBM has 90% of the market with 3500 customers; how the elephant are the 3 alsorans managing to keep their hardware lines running? :confused:

                Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

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                Matt T Heffron
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                10% of 3500 is 350.... I believe your correct response is "Oops!"

                A positive attitude may not solve every problem, but it will annoy enough people to be worth the effort.

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                  10% of 3500 is 350.... I believe your correct response is "Oops!"

                  A positive attitude may not solve every problem, but it will annoy enough people to be worth the effort.

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                  Dan Neely
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                  Why? I wrote:

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                  IF IBM has 90% of the market with 3500 customers

                  Which is just a shorter version of what the article said:

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                  but IBM has the lion's share of the market today, with more than 90%. And 50 years after IBM released its first mainframe, the System/360, in April 1964, the company still has 3,500 mainframe customers.

                  Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

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                    Kent Sharkey wrote:

                    "Why can't you just die?!"

                    Remember having said that, the next time a new programming language is announced. And remember these examples: - C#, because we really need another programming language. - Java, because there's a world shortage of programming languages.

                    I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                    mrmike
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                    Mark_Wallace wrote:

                    And remember these examples:
                    - C#, because we really need another programming language.
                    - Java, because there's a world shortage of programming languages.

                    [informational public service announcement starts here] [cue Sarah Mclachlan music, show montage of people throwing out shrink wrapped boxes] People from all corners of the globe are helping WWF Endangered Programming Language Institute to build a future where compilers and interpreters live in harmony with nature. They might be tracking PL/I in the Himalayas or bottle feeding ALGOL in Brussels, helping communities in Redmond develop sustainable infracturure for abandoned SNOBOL interpreters. [change music to a happier tone, shrink wrapped boxes are being coddled by aid workers] Your donation of approximately the price of a Starbucks coffee a day will ensure a happier life for these neglected languages. [informational public service announcement ends]

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                      Why? I wrote:

                      Quote:

                      IF IBM has 90% of the market with 3500 customers

                      Which is just a shorter version of what the article said:

                      Quote:

                      but IBM has the lion's share of the market today, with more than 90%. And 50 years after IBM released its first mainframe, the System/360, in April 1964, the company still has 3,500 mainframe customers.

                      Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

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                      Matt T Heffron
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                      I didn't read the article, and apparently I mis-interpreted your comment as the remaining 10% equaling 3. My apologies.

                      A positive attitude may not solve every problem, but it will annoy enough people to be worth the effort.

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                        Mark_Wallace wrote:

                        And remember these examples:
                        - C#, because we really need another programming language.
                        - Java, because there's a world shortage of programming languages.

                        [informational public service announcement starts here] [cue Sarah Mclachlan music, show montage of people throwing out shrink wrapped boxes] People from all corners of the globe are helping WWF Endangered Programming Language Institute to build a future where compilers and interpreters live in harmony with nature. They might be tracking PL/I in the Himalayas or bottle feeding ALGOL in Brussels, helping communities in Redmond develop sustainable infracturure for abandoned SNOBOL interpreters. [change music to a happier tone, shrink wrapped boxes are being coddled by aid workers] Your donation of approximately the price of a Starbucks coffee a day will ensure a happier life for these neglected languages. [informational public service announcement ends]

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                        Brisingr Aerowing
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                        :laugh:

                        What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? --- The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.

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