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

couldn't live with a C, I retook the class several times

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

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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

you need a priming read to get cobol to work

I said its getting your first record and/or setting it to read the first record

I believe its actgually grabbing that first record