On Sat, Dec 12, 2015, Fred Cisin wrote: > >>>>For many years, I kept around a plug-board labelled "COBOL INTERPRETER", > >>>>just to prove that a COBOL interpreter was possible :-) > > notice the "emoticon" at the end of my original post. I was trying to > convey knowledge of the misinterpretation, and the humor of it.
To me, that's a hint at best. If it had been a winking face, I would have been pretty confident that humor or irony was intended; simple smiling emoticons don't indicate irony to me. -- Eric Christopherson