DaveL17 wrote:I distinctly remember Matt and Jay saying that the future path was Cobol 60 because, and I quote, "FLOW-MATIC is too pedantic."
First job right out of college was to read/make sense of this HUGE COBOL system the Air Force Reserve was using for logistics support on a Wang VS. The source was about 4 inches thick when printed on an old line printer. Maintenance had become a nightmare so they contracted with us to "fix" it. We wanted to rewrite it in Ada (um, yeah, this was 1988 and Ada was all the rage in the government) but they chose to port it to a "new" AT&T 3B2/600 unix box and use a "porting" library to handle the Wang specific interface code (character-based of course). That in itself was a nightmare, but fortunately I bailed to a different job before I had to do any work on the port.
Ah, the memories...