Meet Cobol's hard core fans
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These folks won't migrate. The reason probably isn't what you're thinking.
"Why can't you just die?!"
"Why can't you just die?!" Thanks, to made me spill coffee on my clean hoodie. :mad:
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These folks won't migrate. The reason probably isn't what you're thinking.
"Why can't you just die?!"
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These folks won't migrate. The reason probably isn't what you're thinking.
"Why can't you just die?!"
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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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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These folks won't migrate. The reason probably isn't what you're thinking.
"Why can't you just die?!"
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
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.
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!
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:
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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:
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
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]
: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.