Re: Setting A Hex Value in COBOL

In article <post53h4jn8oik1b2igprnr7ja5e6o80t0@xxxxxxx>,
Howard Brazee <howard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 31 May 2007 15:57:19 +0000 (UTC), docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx () wrote:

In 1980 I worked in a shop that had everybody run their CoBOL programs
through a syntax checker. We reviewed the output before
re-submitting the programs to the compiler.

Sounds rather similar, Mr Brazee... and just think, about half of 1980 is
more than twenty-seven years ago, give or take a bit.

How did that happen?

Time continued to pass... or something like that. Getting older beats the
alternative, usually.

Isn't twenty-seven years a significant amount
of time?

I recall an explanation of the Theory of Relativity as saying 'When you
sit on a hot stove for a minute, it seems like an hour; when you kiss a
pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute'.

But it seems so recent...

That is a Good Thing, Mr Brazee... there are those whose aged brains see
the past as immediate and that can be a horror.

'Where are they? They said they were stepping out for just a minute and
they should be back by now... what happened to them?'

DD

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