Re: Wedding photography versus altitude

"Alan Browne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> jjs wrote:
> >>Except, of course, for the VB programmers:  they truly are the scum of
> >>the earth.
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> > No no. COBOL "programmers" hold that honor.
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> I wouldn't say so ... COBOL has been a "workhorse" language since it was
> conceived for business use.  A true legacy.  B & VB began as hobbyist
> languages that took on lives of their own.

COBOL programmers usually don't know the meaning of structures (and the
program hierarchy layout is not a structure), recursion, memory management,
word-size, and soforth, and it is not uncommon that they have never even
seen the computers the program works upon. In general they seem to know very
little about real programming. But the virtue of COBOL is that anybody with
half a brain can learn it in a week without being a computer scientist, or
even computer literate (whatever that means today.) COBOL is a lot like some
'modern' HLLs for the web in certain ways - it calls the hard parts from the
language to facilities unkown to the programmer.

> Quiz:  what us governemnt agency originated COBOL?

That's the kind of 'quiz' that a COBOL maven considers challenging? It was a
DOD project. So what? Are we going to delve in to Grace Hopper's Bug and
Nanosecond wire?