On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 11:56 AM scott Ford <idfli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wayne, > > Yes sir, same here. I learned Assembler first and then Cobol and then some > PL/1. > I always felt each language had its strengths and weaknesses and all were > And a few of those tools leave you with bloody fingers if you don't know how to use them properly! > like tools in a toolbox. > > > Scott > > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 2:51 AM Wayne Bickerdike <wayn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Interesting. I remember back in 1979 debugging the old Micro Focus COBOL. > > It was one of the few tools available for z80 based machines running CP/M > > and MP/M. > > > > It had a screen handler that used DISPLAY and ACCEPT and a primitive ISAM > > file system. Nice thing was that it would run in 48K of memory. MP/M only > > gave you 44K in bank switched memory in the first bank and 48K in the > other > > 3 banks (if you had that config). > > > > Nice to see a survivor of all the platform changes over the years and a > > truly excellent COBOL workbench. > > > > REALIA COBOL and CICS were also pretty neat in their day. Eventually > dumped > > by CA. > > > > Learned to like COBOL over the years, just. It does the job. > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 10:08 PM Mark Regan <marktre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > https://www.weirdware.com/2020/03/24/why-rip-out-cobol-when-you-can-modernise-key-applications > > > > > > or > > > > > > *https://tinyurl.com/rezyxke* <https://tinyurl.com/rezyxke> > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Mark T. Regan > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > > > > -- > > Wayne V. Bickerdike > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > -- > > > > *IDMWORKS * > > Scott Ford > > z/OS Dev. > > > > > “By elevating a friend or Collegue you elevate yourself, by demeaning a > friend or collegue you demean yourself” > > > > www.idmworks.com > > scott.f...@idmworks.com > > Blog: www.idmworks.com/blog > > > > > > *The information contained in this email message and any attachment may be > privileged, confidential, proprietary or otherwise protected from > disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, > you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or > use of this message and any attachment is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this message in error, please notify us immediately by replying to > the message and permanently delete it from your computer and destroy any > printout thereof.* > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- People in sleeping bags are the soft tacos of the bear world. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
