Message from @^Kevin^
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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
the loop doesn't work without doing that priminig read
I'm well aware of how programming works
I'm not here to play 20 questions about my knowledge of programming
I've been retired for many years
you can think what you want, I already proved it
I told you I was retired
no matter what I answred you would still think I didn't know
not if you answered it correctly
I could pull out my cobol manual and quote you pages out of it, you wouldn't believe I own books
I answered the priming question correctly
you still don't beleive it