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VK6HU > BIOS 23.02.04 04:00l 46 Lines 1584 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 1635_VK6HU
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Subj: Re: COBOL
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From: VK6HU@VK6BBS.#PER.#WA.AUS.OC
To : BIOS@WW
VK6HU/TPK 1.83d Msg #:1635 Date:23-02-04 Time:1:48Z
Greetings all ...
Wayne M5WJF opined:
>
>G4XNH wrote:-
>> COmmon Business Oriented Language.
>
>Shouldn't that be 'Orientated'?
He could well be gramatically correct, but the bod who wrote the programme
elected to use "Oriented".
My reference is "Home Computers: A Beginners Glossary and Guide" from
dilithium Press in 1978 (the lower case 'd' is their choice).
... and further:
I dimly remember using it on an XT, with
>an editer, interpreter, and compiler, all on separate 1.44MB Floppies,
>with a ream of printout just so the interpreter could point out that I'd
>missed out a full stop somewhere...those were the days of structured
>programming, Machine Code, (not so) High Level Languages.
Absolutely. I tried to learn machine language by myself with my first
computer but I had such a rotten teacher I failed!
However Basic clicked and I still use it for some applications. In those
days it was a 64Kb system with twin 70Kb(?) 5.5" floppies - the 40 tracks
had to be individually controlled.
>
>I've never tried learning one of these new fangled object orientated
>languages, yet I've been told by a friend who is a Systems Analyst that
>I'd have more difficulty learning with a structured language background,
>than someone completely new to object orientated languages.
>
I would like time to learn something like C+++ and LINUX but, being retired
now, there is no time to do anything!
Thanks Wayne,
cheers & 73,
Peter VK6HU
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