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I used to be a VBA programmer but it was more than 10 years ago, my knowledge of VB6 is rubbish, although I had to make simple changes in VB6 program ever since...

Yeah, I hope that Uruguay wins the cup. Spain would not be bad either...

Everybody here either uses .NET, Java, Assembly or COBOL. I am an "rare bird", sole survivor, because I program in C/C++. Edit: I like C#, wish I were a C# programmer, don't get me wrong. Assembly has paid my bills more than once.

Honestly, I lost in interest in our national team a long time ago ( 2002 ). I wish Netherlands had won the last world cup, not they were a great team, they have just been deserving to win since the 70s. On the other hand it is good to see Spain. I am cheering up for Uruguay tonight :)

It would be great if the bank corps here could upgrade their old systems, but they seem quite happy with this ancient environment. As a C/C++ programmer, it does not make me any good that they keep wrapping old systems using .NET and Java components. COBOL is being taught here at Universities again. My brother in law works for a small company whose main product is a fiscal system/administrative system and the whole thing was written in COBOL with several emends to work with the real world. I would be glad if there was a huge change in business men's retrograde mentality here so that they could see that upgrading is worth its cost.

No worries :-) yeah it is a little bit calmer. Now the government and "associated crew" are trying to fix things up because they finally realized we were fed up. Honestly I never thought I would see such thing in my lifetime...

COBOL is not completely dead. I can attest that because if I look over my PC monitor I can see tons of people writing COBOL code. It has been a quite good working area down here in Brazil...