[COFF] [TUHS] The 2038 bug...

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 6:09 PM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Object oriented COBOL never took off because "ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL."
didn't roll off the tongue.

Warner

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