IMPORTANT - Blue

[Casual Observer]

Wait is he arguing USB to 4 things? That's reasonable. USB Mini, Macro, C, plus printe, have all those in the drawer. At first I was confused but you put them all in the USB.

[Tdarcos]

I mean, you reset the one for Paul Robinson recently, right?

No. I don't even remember what the password is, because Firefox fills it in automatically. It says I created that login March 13, 2012. I haven't changed the password since... then. Wow, ten years on the same password.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Blue, I'll send you an email with your username and password shortly.

[Tdarcos]

Blue, I'll send you an email with your username and password shortly.

"If you're Blue and you don't know where to go to, why don't you go where fashion sits? Puttin' on the Ritz."

[Casual Observer]

Blue, I'll send you an email with your username and password shortly.

"If you're Blue and you don't know where to go to, why don't you go where fashion sits? Puttin' on the Ritz."

Cute , we don't make songs about your handle.

[AArdvark]

Forget it, he's triggered by stuff like that.

[Tdarcos]

Blue, I'll send you an email with your username and password shortly.

"If you're Blue and you don't know where to go to, why don't you go where fashion sits? Puttin' on the Ritz."

Cute , we don't make songs about your handle.

Feel free to do so. I thought it worked under the circumstances because it is her handle and it's an upbeat tune. I mean, I didn't use "I'm bluer than Blue..." etc.

[pinback]

Bruh.

[Casual Observer]

There once was a man named tDarcos
Who knew COBOL like the back of his palms
He could code all day
In a most efficient way
And his programs never suffered from qualms

chatgpt

[Tdarcos]

There once was a man named tDarcos
Who knew COBOL like the back of his palms

I'll try this again, although I'm sure it won't make any difference, the following:

1. Computers were almost exclusively in businesses, government, and colleges
2. There were two classes of computers: minicomputers and mainframes. All of these had about less than 2% of the resources or capacity of the phone you have in your pocket.
3. When I was in college, there were a small selection of programming languages.
4. Minicomputers (smaller computers) had anywhere from 16K - 64K (not much more), with disks of 5 megabytes or less.
5. Mainframe computers typically had from about 64-512K, with disk storage up to maybe 100 megabytes.
6. Programming languages generally available, were: Assembly Language (both), Basic (Mini), Cobol (both), FORTRAN (both), and RPG III (mostly mainframe or minicomputers made by IBM). Some specialized languages were taught in some schools, but unless you planned to work in specialized fields, you didn't bother. Other languages were available, but most were not taught except at big, technical universities like Berkeley, Caltech, MIT, etc.
7. Since you didn't know where you would work, you'd learn several of these.
8. In my entire life, I used Cobol about one month; other places I worked at used different languages. I could have completely skipped Cobol, and it would have had no effect on my career as a programmer.
9. I would say, if I combined all the code I ever wrote in languages taught then or that I taught myself later, Cobol probably represents 0.001% of all the code I've ever written

I do not know hpw or why I got this rep of having written a significant amount of code in Cobol.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Because you worked professionally as a COBOL programmer, for what, 10-13 years?

[Tdarcos]

Because you worked professionally as a COBOL programmer, for what, 10-13 years?

Sigh. I don't know why I bother answering questions. Let me repeat myself:

I'll try this again, although I'm sure it won't make any difference, the following:
...
8. In my entire life, I used Cobol about one month; other places I worked at used different languages. I could have completely skipped Cobol, and it would have had no effect on my career as a programmer.
9. I would say, if I combined all the code I ever wrote in languages taught then or that I taught myself later, Cobol probably represents 0.001% of all the code I've ever written.
...
I do not know how or why I got this rep of having written a significant amount of code in Cobol.

I was right about that, I explained, and it still didn't make any difference. I gave a very low tolerance for willful blindness, so "perhaps you'll understand, if I tell it to you, plain."* The first 10 words of paragraph #8, i.e the first clause of its first fucking sentence, which I have included, would give you an exact maximum of how long I was a professional programmer in Cobol, if you had bothered to read it, which, obviously you didn't.

Were you born this stupid or did you study how to lose intelligence? Tsk, tsk. tsk, that's what we got for inventing television.



* From Don McLean, Castles in the Air.

[pinback]

When I first met you, you were a COBOL programmer and told me you'd been doing it for at least eight years.

[Tdarcos]

When I first met you, you were a COBOL programmer and told me you'd been doing it for at least eight years.

Again, your alcoholism both has added your memory, and made you put words in my mouth, again. That would have been around 1992 give or take 4-5 years, I think. First, I would never have claimed I was a c-word programmer for 8 years, I would have said I had been a programmer for 14 years. I'd never have used that nasty word.

Yes, that means as of now, I have been one for 45 years.


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Sent from a mobile phone.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

When I first met you, you were a COBOL programmer and told me you'd been doing it for at least eight years.

Right. We're just going off what the man himself has said.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Yes, that means as of now, I have been one for 45 years.

So you have been programming professionally in COBOL for 45 years? Dude. I'm trying to read your posts and learn about you. When you say stuff like this I don't know why you get mad later when we remember it. We remember because we care!

What would you say has been the biggest COBOL challenges in the last 27-45 years?

[Tdarcos]

What would you say has been the biggest COBOL challenges in the last 27-45 years?

Mostly how to stop stupid people from breeding, and when necessary, where to hire hit men. Good help is hard to find. Mostly I helped develop programs to automate the process.

There were other people with ideas. Germany near World War II developed some very efficient methods to take care of those poor unfortunate wretches. They had summer camps for them to visit, and offered free transportation and baths. They even had arts and crafts programs. Some of the camp residents made soap and lampshades.

[Casual Observer]

Thanks everyone for stepping up for an old friend, you're all marvelous people.

[Tdarcos]

Thanks everyone for stepping up for an old friend, you're all marvelous people.

If my seemingly uncaring an callous example upsets you, I apologize.

If those people hasn't kept teasing me about something that was a long time ago and an irrelevant part of my life, and blowing it all out of proportion, I wouldn't have had to use sick and twisted commentary to make theirs stop.

[RealNC]

In lines of COBOL,
Tdarcos weaves programs with care,
Business logic flows.