Rich kids are into COBOL

[Mike Stein]

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From: "Roe Peterson" <roeapeterson at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Rich kids are into COBOL


I wouldn't wish a COBOL career on my worst enemy. 
What a god-awful mess.

And yes, I know how and why it came to be.  And 
all about legacy code bases and the high cost of 
migration.  I was forced to take cobol back in 
1978, never attended a lecture, handed in all the 
assignments, wrote the final, passed the course, 
and promptly forgot the whole thing.

Still, what a god-awful mess :-)

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Good thing Grace Hopper isn't around to read 
that...

I actually kinda liked COBOL; a lot of it was just 
boilerplate after all...

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