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Charles E Vermette wrote:
>
> This used to be S.O.P. in the 80s - plenty of folks learned COBOL at
> low rates in training programs, worked for three years, and went on
> to better things (I feel very old all of a sudden ::::Mary Hopkin
> singing 'Those were the days':::::::)
Hello, my name is Earl, and I'm a COBOLer. Today marks eight thousand,
four hundred days since the last time I wrote a line of COBOL. It
is a day to day struggle even now, when we are safely past the great
temptation of the Y2K COBOL hiring frenzy. I am not entirely free of
sin, however, since I dabble in PHP programming. I rationalize it as
a way to keep my skills up to date, but it's the same old temptation,
to bend computers to my will, that all may fear and tremble at my
power as a member of the Computer Priesthood. (hangs head in shame)
(transcribed at a recent COBOLers Anonymous meeting)
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