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1 posted on 06/12/2021 9:01:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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2 posted on 06/12/2021 9:04:03 PM PDT by The MAGA-Deplorian (Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball-less)
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... especially if they opt for cloud-based solutions over on-premises ...

Our security is permanently doomed once this becomes the norm.

3 posted on 06/12/2021 9:04:39 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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The first One I learned was Fortran IV


4 posted on 06/12/2021 9:04:48 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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I’m not 100% sure, but I think JimRob wrote FR software with PERL.


6 posted on 06/12/2021 9:06:19 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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“If you’re a COBOL programmer, chances are good you can land a job at a major institution that’s maintained a COBOL codebase since before you were born.”

Learned COBOL and some mathematical programming language in the early Seventies.
COBOL reminds me of Medieval architecture...


7 posted on 06/12/2021 9:08:55 PM PDT by mrsmith (US MEDIA: " Every 'White' cop is a criminal! And all the 'non-white' criminals saints!")
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I learned C+, COBOL, Assembler, Fortran-77.

Where is the the tech analog to the Rosetta Stone?

Not everything has been converted.


10 posted on 06/12/2021 9:20:21 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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Verilog! I made a good living with that.


11 posted on 06/12/2021 9:20:21 PM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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I learned programming in college using Basic and Fortran. I also learned using punch cards. Yes, I am old. I probably can’t get any programming jobs.


12 posted on 06/12/2021 9:21:17 PM PDT by kennedy (No relation to those other Kennedys.)
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flr


13 posted on 06/12/2021 9:21:55 PM PDT by Nailbiter
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Pascal, Forth, APL. I don’t hear much about LISP anymore, or Smalltalk.


14 posted on 06/12/2021 9:24:46 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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I have coded in the last four while my wife uses R, the first.

Perl works very well and it's easy to learn. COBOL is easy, too, but I preferred PL/1, which was very much like Pascal.

R and Perl will be staying around a while. COBOL was supposed to be out the door years ago, but it's still plugging away since Y2K gave it attention.

Objective-C seems the most likely to ease out the door. It was made for the NeXT computer, which is where I worked with it.

This article brings back good memories.

15 posted on 06/12/2021 9:27:04 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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I wish PERL would go away, but it never does.


17 posted on 06/12/2021 9:30:57 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I see PERL on there... what about any sort of batch files? Hell, even in my Windows machines I script things in BASIC, put them in a CRON job, and let it run.


19 posted on 06/12/2021 9:31:59 PM PDT by ro_dreaming ("XX = female; XY = male. Who's the science deniers now?" - Me)
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Bookmark.


21 posted on 06/12/2021 9:32:32 PM PDT by TianaHighrider (God bless President Trump. Prayers for PDJT and his loyal supporters.)
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I nominate SAP ABAP because I can say with authority that SAP has lost its way and become shit-tastric.


22 posted on 06/12/2021 9:34:04 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic )
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shortage of COBOL programmers means that such positions can provide quite a comfortable salary (the Dice Salary Calculator suggests $79,000 per year isn’t out of the question in California).

$79K being "comfortable" in California? In the cities that most likely have the institutions needing COBOL coding?

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

24 posted on 06/12/2021 9:39:40 PM PDT by Yossarian
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PERL huh? I write it every day, even today. (Data processing with no GUI. Reformatting data, slapping it into a database, and generating reports.) There’s also Python (for NEW development), and BASH to run things.

I was learning BASIC in high school, and teaching myself 6502 assembly language at night.


25 posted on 06/12/2021 9:41:44 PM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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I used something called FORMAC which was a superset of PL/1 and compiled on the PL/1 optimizing compiler. I can’t find it anywhere now. I was looking for an implementation that would run on a PC... or at least on something that would run on a mainframe emulator... I think the emulator is called Hercules.


26 posted on 06/12/2021 9:42:31 PM PDT by Maurice Tift (Never wear anything that panics the cat. -- P.J. O'Rourke)
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I learned COBOL, RPG2 and BASIC in 1975, never used it.


27 posted on 06/12/2021 9:45:28 PM PDT by PROCON (Our rights do not come from government, therefore they cannot take them away.)
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Does this mean that MUMPS and SNOBOL survive?


28 posted on 06/12/2021 9:46:14 PM PDT by C210N (You can trust government or you can understand history. But you CANNOT do both)
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