JD1967

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by JD1967 2mo ago
I started my professional career in software development in the mid 80's and had home computers like Atari before then. While software was much more simple back then, I think people just whine more now. When we encountered bugs, we wor
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by JD1967 1y ago
I no longer develop in COBOL but I did for 20 years, and never touched a mainframe. I worked on a mid-size vertical ERP system (back then it wasn't called "ERP") that originated on Data General using Interactive COBOL, which
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by JD1967 3y ago
I started running about 10 years ago, and joined some local run groups. A few of them will do a run and then go out for a beer afterwards. I've made some good friends there, and we do things outside of running. Same with cycling - I st
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by JD1967 3y ago
I love to code, but at 55 and still having a teenager to send to college, I can make more $$ as a project manager/architect. So I don't get to code as much professionally - just watch other people do it... I'm not even sure I
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by JD1967 3y ago
I started running at 45, and cycling a few years later. I never ran more than the mile they made my run in gym class in HS. I'm 55 and have run 12 marathons. My 20, 30, 40 year old self would have never guessed.
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by JD1967 4y ago
I still can't be logged into multiple Teams accounts from my Windows desktop - but I can from my iOS phone! A Microsoft product that works more cleanly on Apple iOS than it's own Windows. When you're a consultant working with
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by JD1967 4y ago
I'm a little older, but similar. My first professional job was in 1985, programming in Cobol on Unix systems, on an accounting package. MS-DOS and IBM PC's were just becoming important, and we did later port to DOS, then Windows.
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by JD1967 4y ago
Yeah, I programmed in COBOL for 15 years on Unix systems... so I don't have any mainframe experience... I'm pretty good with the actual COBOL code, but as people have said, that's only a piece of it. Working with the environm
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by JD1967 4y ago
NEXT SENTENCE (not "MOVE NEXT SENTENCE") is sort of equivalent to "continue" in modern languages. In more "modern" COBOL's like COBOL-85, there is actually a "CONTINUE" which is essentially a no-