[Year 12 SofDev] [Year 12 IT Apps] Ouch!

[Savage, John L]

I guess you all know the old chestnut about the IBM memo that was fed into a COBOL machine – it compiled successfully but failed to run.

Laurie

From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark
Sent: Tuesday, 21 October 2014 5:38 PM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List; Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] [Year 12 IT Apps] Ouch!

This is more for the SD list, but...

program HellYeah
  implicit none
  write(*,*) "+1. You never forget your first lover or your first compiler."
 end program

Now let me argue a case for LISP... she had a lot of parentheses, but so much artificial intelligence...


On 21 October 2014 15:43, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com<mailto:rgesthuizen at gmail.com>> wrote:
Bring back Fortran :-)

—
Roland GESTHUIZEN
http://about.me/rgesthuizen

On 20 Oct 2014, at 5:57 pm, Mark <mark at vceit.com<mailto:mark at vceit.com>> wrote:

Do you prefer readability or less typing?

On Monday, October 20, 2014, Robert Timmer-Arends <timmer at westnet.com.au<mailto:timmer at westnet.com.au>> wrote:

yes, it's a long way from

017        ADD 1 TO RECORD-COUNT

to

recordCount++

Regards
Robert T-A

----- Original Message -----
From: Savage, John L
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2014 10:49 AM
Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] Ouch!

I just ran across this comment on COBOL by Turing Award recipient Edsger Dijkstra in 1975

"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."

In 1975 somebody was trying to teach me COBOL, I was inclined to agree.

Laurie Savage
http://accelerus.pvgc.vic.edu.au<http://accelerus.pvgc.vic.edu.au/>



Mark Kelly
mark AT vceit DOT com
http://vceit.com<http://vceit.com/>

I love the sound of people's voices after they stop talking.



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I love the sound of people's voices after they stop talking.



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