Re: COBOL is back!!!

Actually, COBOL programmers will be placed in a cryogenic state, to be
re-awakened in the year 9,999.
The first words they will hear is
"We looked at our programs and noticed some coding you placed there back in
1999 to handle the Y2k problem."
"We need your help"



Alan Shore
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midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 09/16/2008 01:54:58 PM:

I agree.. it never went away.. its the one
virus that no one is able to control.. and those
of us that are infected consider it our duty and
responsibility to create as much contagen code as
we can before our time is up..
besides...
old cobol programmers don't die!!!!
the government puts them in suspended
animation and keeps them on storage in
case their needed one day in the future
because schools quit teaching it and someone
may have a payroll check crises one day... LOL






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