OT: Bullshitting at the Barbershop

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One of my first jobs out of university was writing/modifying IBM JCL (job control language). Thankfully, there was some good documentation and I just copied a lot of existing scripts to suit my needs.

 

[dare2be]

One of my first jobs out of university was writing/modifying IBM JCL (job control language). Thankfully, there was some good documentation and I just copied a lot of existing scripts to suit my needs.

I'm sure I'm Mattolling myself here, but my favorite tasks involved writing REXX scripts.

COBOL -> JCL -> REXX -> vbscript -> T-SQL -> Powershell -> Python

I've come a long way, baby.

 

[dare2be]

Young people will never know.

I had a recent project where the customer wanted to use google doc for order data. I asked if they can simply FTP files.

The recent college graduate, co-founder of a tech company, with a BS in Computer Science, from a major college, didn't know what FTP was....

So did you expect them to know about Telnet, Gopher and NNTP, too?

 

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I'm sure I'm Mattolling myself here, but my favorite tasks involved writing REXX scripts.

COBOL -> JCL -> REXX -> vbscript -> T-SQL -> Powershell -> Python

I've come a long way, baby.

I've worked with all of the bolded above. Python just goofing around on my own, though.

 

[buffhockey]

So did you expect them to know about Telnet, Gopher and NNTP, too?

I was really surprised he didn't at least know what FTP or SFTP was.

Maybe because I didn't format the google doc or use it that much, the spread sheet isn't so nice compared to Lotus 1-2-3 Excel.

 

[dare2be]

I was really surprised he didn't at least know what FTP or SFTP was.

Maybe because I didn't format the google doc or use it that much, the spread sheet isn't so nice compared to Lotus 1-2-3 Excel.

Lotus Notes was da bomb.

I think that phrase is appropriate for the time period.

 

[buffhockey]

 

[Comeds]

I'm sure I'm Mattolling myself here, but my favorite tasks involved writing REXX scripts.

COBOL -> JCL -> REXX -> vbscript -> T-SQL -> Powershell -> Python

I've come a long way, baby.

I took a COBOL course just to learn how programming worked. Apparently even though it was outdated it was still good to teach programming basics.
Plus my brother taught it so it was free. It's long gone now though.

 

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I took a COBOL course just to learn how programming worked. Apparently even though it was outdated it was still good to teach programming basics.
Plus my brother taught it so it was free. It's long gone now though.

I think COBOL is still being used by a lot of governments around the world. It certainly isn't as prevalent as it used to be, but it is still in demand.

 

[Comeds]

I think COBOL is still being used by a lot of governments around the world. It certainly isn't as prevalent as it used to be, but it is still in demand.

Is it? I meant my knowledge of it is long gone

It really was a legacy course just used to teach programming basics so I did not retain any specifics. I'm surprised it's still used from how it was talked about then.

 

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[dare2be]

Is it? I meant my knowledge of it is long gone

It really was a legacy course just used to teach programming basics so I did not retain any specifics. I'm surprised it's still used from how it was talked about then.

I took one COBOL course in college, at the end of my senior year. I had the choice of an interesting but challenging compiler construction course, or to breeze by with a data processing course (COBOL, unbeknownst to me at the time). I chose the easier route. I hated that language.

I was hired directly out of college for my COBOL knowledge.

 

[buffhockey]

what an idea. Hope it catches on.

 

[thedddd]

Geez COBOL. To this day I have flash backs when the punch cards weren’t labeled properly.


Seriously I wrote a Hospital Reservation system in MUMPS (M programming since the acronym isn’t good.)

 

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Geez COBOL. To this day I have flash backs when the punch cards weren’t labeled properly.


Seriously I wrote a Hospital Reservation system in MUMPS (M programming since the acronym isn’t good.)

I've never heard of MUMPS as far as programming is concerned, but I find it hilarious that a hospital reservation system would be written in MUMPS lol

 

[thedddd]

I've never heard of MUMPS as far as programming is concerned, but I find it hilarious that a hospital reservation system would be written in MUMPS lol

Funny thing it was derived for Hospitals and managing electronic medical records.

Even funnier than that the acronym: Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System

 

[Comeds]

It's dumb people day on my social media. I've posted it before, and I'm not claiming to be a genius*, but without fail everyone I'm "friends" with who struggled in school (and some struggled mightily - failed, kept back) is a Maga supporter. That alone would make me question my support.

In this case they are bitching about Mexicans. If they are local to where we grew up, and I think they are, then its probably not Mexicans they are bitching about. More likely from a lower central American country. At least that's where most of the immigrants to my old community were coming from.





*Although Henchman magazine did have me as one of the 100 "ones to watch" in 97

 

[forty_three]

It's dumb people day on my social media. I've posted it before, and I'm not claiming to be a genius*, but without fail everyone I'm "friends" with who struggled in school (and some struggled mightily - failed, kept back) is a Maga supporter. That alone would make me question my support.

In this case they are bitching about Mexicans. If they are local to where we grew up, and I think they are, then its probably not Mexicans they are bitching about. More likely from a lower central American country. At least that's where most of the immigrants to my old community were coming from.





*Although Henchman magazine did have me as one of the 100 "ones to watch" in 97

I smartened up my social media feeds by blocking most of the morons from high school. I keep aggressive Jeep driving muscly meathead guy and one of my exes because their lives are such trainwrecks beyond their politics that I peek in when I am running low on schadenfreude.

 

[Comeds]

Yesterday in San Antonio Ronda Mason, a young African American woman late for a meeting, accidentally ate a Wheat Thin and became the first non-white person to ever eat a Wheat Thin. Congrats Ronda, and we're sorry!

 

[Comeds]

I smartened up my social media feeds by blocking most of the morons from high school. I keep aggressive Jeep driving muscly meathead guy and one of my exes because their lives are such trainwrecks beyond their politics that I peek in when I am running low on schadenfreude.

30 day snooze is a pretty great feature.