17 Jun
2026
17 Jun
'26
11:30 a.m.
In the early 70's, Mary Ann (Mark) Horton wrote an emulator in HP
2000C Basic named "Hortran" at Benson high and OMSI. I would suspect,
no copy exists, unless Mary Ann has a copy. Dead?
On Wed, Jun 17, 2026 at 11:17 AM Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jun 2026, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
COBOL is "dead" because academia said
it was. The price you pay for
not letting the ivory tower masters drive the bus.
With adademic ivory tower masters driving the bus, instead of St.
Patrick, the snakes would never have been driven out of Irelaand.