[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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