Message from @^Kevin^
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I never needed to know that
cobol
pL/1
I've coded in machine language, but small programs
I dunno, EBCIDIC I think is the standard IBM one
its just character codes but there are specific commands in machine langauge to do functions
its rather basic and boring
my father did punch cards, I was way too old to program in punch cards
I graduated in 94
I was programming for the 2,000 disaster that never came
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its a character code, they taught it in the same class as the coding for the machine language
that is all I remember
I had a card with all the commands
it wasn't that complciated
I got an A in the class
most of the coding classes I got an A in
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cobol I had a bad teacher
first class I got a C in it
I programmed in cobol on the job, not sure why you think its a dead language
it might be dead now but when I coded it it wasn't dead yet
most of the data was already input, they were mostly read off huge reals of tape
I did no data entry, I was programming
I had one class on the machine coding
I knew the rudimentary basics of coding in machine language
I never needed it for a job, never used it professinally
did it have a name
the biggest problem with cobol is you need a priming read to start the whole process
then yo ucan do normal reads with cobol and its all set
I was showing someone the basics of cobol and they completely forgot and didn't know about the priming read
thru the entire input and output off
program blew up
I had a cobol teacher talking about a special method to avoid the priming read needed for cobol, but it was overly complicated and not worth doing
its basically getting your first record/setting it to read the first record
......
the point is that cobol doesn't work without the priming read
and if you think I'm not an expert in computer info systems, yhour wrong, I am
I know what I'm talking about
he asked what a priming read is