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RE: COBOL is back!!!

There will be no programming languages in the year 10,000. Humans will all have nano-devices implanted into their heads and just think what the want the computer to do and it will do it.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kirk Goins
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 2:36 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: COBOL is back!!!

Aaron Abreu wrote:
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


Or for the Year 10,000 Bug, where all year fields will need to be 5 char!

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