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To like COBOL, you need to posess a particular kind of rigid corporate mindset. I wonder whether it's fathers/mothers had the mentioned physic structure, or it
by jxub 9y ago
To like COBOL, you need to posess a particular kind of rigid corporate mindset. I wonder whether it's fathers/mothers had the mentioned physic structure, or it was a fruit of 50's salaryman mental subjugation. No offense ment.
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- DanBC 9y agoOr was it a product of the computers at the time? Here's a 1959 computer, donated to a school in 1965. This was filmed in 1969. One of the children wrote a language - minigol - so the younger children didn't have to use assembler. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1DtY42xEOI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1DtY42xEOI Just turning the machine on requires coordination between several people using intercom.
- coreyp_1 9y agoThank you for the video! It was interesting to see the binary adding exercise!
- brians 9y agoOr perhaps you need to be a frustrated machine language programmer?
- throwawayhf 9y ago2030: "To like Perl, you need to possess a particular kind of BOFH mindset, a fruit of an 80s abused nerd mental subjugation." 2050: "To like Roar and Yavascript, you need to possess a particular kind of startup bro mindset, a fruit of a 10s ZIRP mental subjugation." Well, Alan Kay already said it better. "Pop culture is all about identity and feeling like you're participating. It has nothing to do with cooperation, the past or the future — it's living in the present. I think the same is true of most people who write code for money. They have no idea where [their culture came from]..."
- xxxxxxxx 9y agoEngineers can create amazing applications in any a language. I worked on General Ledger:Millennium (GL:M) as a youngster and I quickly came to appreciated it for what it was : an engineering marvel.