[COFF] [TUHS] The 2038 bug...
Larry McVoy
lm at mcvoy.com
Sun Jan 17 11:09:43 AEST 2021
On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:07:14PM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jan 2021, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>
> >Heh. In 1973 I was once required to abandon assembler, the language of
> >Real Programmers, and write a program in COBOL (in fact, a database front
> >end to COBOL). I took revenge in the label names. From
> >http://www.lemis.com/grog/src/GOPU
>
> My favourite COBOL statement is "ADD A TO B GIVING C COMPUTATIONAL ROUNDED".
I am _so_ glad I never had to learn COBOL. I appreciate terseness, COBOL
is not that.
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