[Info-vax] Writer advice requested

Norm Raphael norman.raphael at charter.net
Mon Nov 15 19:46:29 EST 2010


---- JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote: 
> Rob Brown wrote:
> 
> >> What's wrong with COBOL?
> > 
> > A cross between Assembler and English, with all the disadvantages of 
> > both.
> 
> 
> This brings instant image of Mr VAXman doing kernel code in COBOL :-)

Well the first COBOL programming I did was on a GE/Honeywell 4500, and there was an escape - which we needed and used - to assembler code directive so we could code efficientcy where the compiler produced g-d aweful code.
So COBOL w/Assembler is not so far-fetched.
--
Norman F. Raphael
"Everything worthwhile eventually 
degenerates into real work." -Murphy






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