Re: COBOL ain't quite dead - yet !

In article <6muradFirp0kU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Pete Dashwood <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


<docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:gec9p1$9b1$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[snip]

How curious... I recall reading, decades on back, in a Very Reputable
Source (I think it was 'The Reader's Digest') that there was a
telephone-number one could dial in Austria and get - granted, with the
quality available in the late 1960s, rotary-dial telephones and actual
copper-wire connections - a 'concert A', 440 cycles, in the same way that
one could, during those days, call a local number in some parts of the USA
and get the time of day.

I never heard about that. It's impressive, for the time.

What I drew from it was that different societies consider *very* different
Should Be available from a given technology... but I was a bit younger
then.

[snip]

It has been my experience, Mr Dashwood, that *very* few people are
sufficiently creative to want something Truly New... in the business-world
I inhabit I usually see 'Well, what I want is more-or-less what Jim gets
for the quarterlies and Jane gets for the semi-annuals... but sorted
differently... and could you somehow get it to underline the deleted
entries that aren't there any more?'

Yes, but we should live in hope... right, Doc? :-)

One may desire the finest of chicken-meat, Mr Dashwood, but it is not a
bad idea to be ready to deal with the meanest of sausages...

.... so hope for the breast but prepare for the wurst.

DD

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