\GoBillsInDallas/ Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/technology/obituary-jean-sammet-software-designer-cobol.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gugny Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 Rest easy, Jean, whoever you are. And thank you for COBOL, whatever that is. Sad day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoloinOhio Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 RIP Jean. Actually RIP COBOL, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Jack Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 I remember reading an article recently that the demand for COBOL programmers is up because old the older programmers that wrote programs still in use today are retiring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K D Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 I remember reading an article recently that the demand for COBOL programmers is up because old the older programmers that wrote programs still in use today are retiring. This is true. However a lot of the support for legacy systems is now coming from India so it's not really helping us much in the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4merper4mer Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 COBOL is fine but he also played a solid 2b for Philly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo_Gal Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 (edited) I can solve your nonexistent Y2K problem! I wonder how much my old COBOL books would be worth on fleabay these days?She was 89. And her accomplishments helped changed the way the world works today. Simply amazing. Edited June 4, 2017 by Buffalo_Gal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 I can solve your nonexistent Y2K problem! I wonder how much my old COBOL books would be worth on fleabay these days? She was 89. And her accomplishments helped changed the way the world works today. Simply amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 COBOL is fine but he also played a solid 2b for Philly. Doesn't mean it was worth trading Lenny Dykstra for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 First year university gave us business students Basic and science and engineering students got Fortran and Cobol (forget which was which.) We shared a common lab and our Basic assignments would tell us in a second where the flaw was in our answer. The other programs were compilers and took hours to respond as working or not-working, with no further direction. Teams of nerds would be sitting there waiting and then explode into screams with eff shots ringing out when the code failed them. It was quite amusing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Best Player Available Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 I remember reading an article recently that the demand for COBOL programmers is up because old the older programmers that wrote programs still in use today are retiring. That's a true story. Other programmers in S. Valley and telcom valley are sometimes considered old by 34. So Get your masters degree. come in make your stack quickly and get out. And then "consult" at double your previous salary. Of course you need to be top 5-10 in your area of expertise. Sent from my IBM 286 using Earthlink dial up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PastaJoe Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 COBOL was the first language I used at work. I liked using it but hated setting up the JCL to run it. I still have my manual and a couple of sample programs in the basement. Maybe I should dust them off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevewin Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 (edited) IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.PROGRAM-ID. RIP.PROCEDURE DIVISION.DISPLAY 'RIP'.STOP RUN. Edited June 5, 2017 by stevewin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 The IT folk were talking about COBOL the other day, something about the good future of it, I tuned out before a migraine started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddogblitz Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 (edited) COmmon Business Oriented Language. In college we studied and coded in it a lot. Why are 2 major computer pioneers (Jean and Grace Hopper) women yet in 2017 we have such a hard time getting women to code? Obviously it's not because they can't IMHO. I got my greatest COBOL line from the Computing Center men's room at North Texas State University. If you ever did COBOL on Punch cards you'll get it. COBOL programmers have bigger decks. Edited June 6, 2017 by reddogblitz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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