Re: Next generation COBOL?

Bill Kidder wrote:
Can I do quantum mechanics in Cobol NG?

You can do almost what you want here, there's no moderator. Still every organization does tend to have some limitations.

We have up here in the Great White North two big-box books stores, Chapters and Indigo - now one, as Indigo bought out Chapters. When Chapters first opened in Calgary, in the heyday of computing if you like, before the Y2K meltdown, their book display was like an Aladdin's cave, with oodles and oodles of books on all topics. You could even get excited about books solely devoted to Sorting and Merging. History, one of my favourites - English history by period, Biblical history, Jewish Canaanites etc., Roman, Greek, European (Continent), Canadian of course, US pre- and post- Civil War, WWI, WWII on and on....

Coupled with that the very expensive Starbucks for a cup of coffee and a cake or cookie, an artificial log fire, real comfy chairs and sofas to sink into. Kids here doing their homework, adults reading books for free, chess and draughts (checkers ?) sets.

Lovely atmosphere. Anyway much of that got kiboshed when Indigo assumed control - real difficult to find a chair anywhere to sit now. So immediate assumption - this resulted from Indigo taking over. Only partially true. I kid you not - on a sofa in Vancouver, they found a couple making out. Perhaps it was near the section with the book, "The Joy of Sex".

Jimmy
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