Mark Harrington
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How many programming languages do you know ofOut of all of those responses to your initial question there is not one actual answer. ha ha I was actually curious to see how many languages people actually knew and then perhaps a side discussion of what actually constitutes a language.
Mark Harrington "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG" --Bill Gates
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COBOLMoving to it? From what? RPG? Assembler? That's pretty funny.
Mark Harrington "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG" --Bill Gates
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Your favorite programming job....Me, too. Hopefully my next one that I will be starting on Monday 9/26
Mark Harrington "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG" --Bill Gates
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COBOLI'm 33 years old and I used to be a maniframe COBOL progammer for 8 years. I've been coding in C#.Net for the past 7 years, though. I learned COBOL in a technical school during the years of the Y2K conversion. I started professionally when I was 18 years old and quickly became very bored with what I was doing. So, thank God for .Net and the opportunity for me to learn it. This is the interesting part. I worked at a company that will remain nameless, but it's a very large broadcasting company. Anyhow, they re-hosted their mainframe COBOL code to Windows servers into using COBOL.Net. Yeah, I said it. COBOL.Net. It's made by Fujitsu. If you think COBOL is horrible, you should see the COBOL.Net syntax. My God! Anyhow, as far as COBOL being extinct...It is not. It is very much alive and probably accounts for as much as 75% of all of the lines of code in the world. The problem is that there is no new COBOL development and no one really wants to pay to rewrite legacy COBOL systems because why fix something that isn't broken. So, you will integrate with a lot of AS400 or mainframe COBOL systems. I believe that the mainframe actually has the ability to interpret and use Web services now. Well, that's my comment. I'll be interested to see the replies.... :)
Mark Harrington "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG" --Bill Gates
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Your First Computer...The first compture I owned was an Aquarius. More of a video game system, but it came with a manual that included a bunch of BASIC programs that would make a little running man on the screen and things of that nature. That's what got me interested in programming. http://oldcomputers.net/aquarius.html[^]
Mark