Re: why rpg and not cobol

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim

I wasn't working on computers then - started in 1989, on the AS/400 and 
a little on the 38.

Vern

On 4/13/2013 1:39 PM, Horn, Jim wrote:
> Vern - did you ever work on the IBM 5100 portable computer?  Had an APL
> option.  Sold one once to company that designed BIG power poles.  Probably
> in 1976.
>
> Jim
>
>
> message: 2
> date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:00:41 -0400 (EDT)
> from: Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re: why rpg and not cobol
>
> Oh how can that be! C has NoThInG like all those "interesting" symbols.
>
> I worked for a year as a contractor at IBM in Rochester. At the interview,
> there were about 4 people. One asked me if I knew about APL. I said, "That
> turkey!" Well, all I really knew was, there are fonts on the iSeries called
> APL-something.
>
> It was a trap - the guy I'd be working under just LOVED APL. It's a good
> thing he could be even more irascible than I, without being as politically
> ignorant as I.
>
> I survived that - and was testing stuff in the "new" query engine, which it
> was never called in the wild, bad connotations and all that!
>
> Vern
>
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