Re: OT: The Geek defense
- From: "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:52:14 +1300
"Alistair" <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 26 Feb, 20:36, "Pete Dashwood" <dashw...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
"tim" <T...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:46:19 +1300, Pete Dashwood wrote:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/23/AR200...
What I'd like to know is exactly HOW you can establish yourself as a
Geek,
so you can claim this defence. If writing a file system for Linux is
all
it
takes (a weekend's work for a COBOL programmer...), then there are a
lot
more Geeks around than many people may suppose.
Did he do it? (Jo Brand, referring to O. J. Simpson: "Course he did it;
he's a bloke...")
Thoughts?
Pete.
You must be pretty good if you can write 15,000 lines of
multi-processing kernel code in a weekend.
Well, leaving aside the fact that I AM pretty good :-), it was said with
tongue-in-cheek...:-)
As a matter of record, I once wrote a complete access method for a
mainframe
in a Bank, over a weekend. Another dedicated guy and myself worked on
implementing it into about 300 programs over the same weekend. It enabled
direct access based on Account numbers and had its own hashing algorithm
based around the structure of account numbers in that particular Bank. It
was a complete callable subsystem that implemented all the functions of
data
maintenance using VSAM RRDS. On Monday, everythng was working when the
staff
showed up. We had a total of 9 hours sleep each
As an aside, and not a dig, how long would it have taken under your
beloved C#?
[Pete]
Fair question.
Honestly? I have no idea.
If I was doing it in C# I'd probably use LINQ and SQL Server instead... I
don't know whether the FCL contains any kind of relative file adddressing
routines and I'm certainly not going looking :-)
I would readily admit that, at the time, COBOL was the perfect tool for the
job.
Pete.
--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."
.
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