Stupid Guest Tricks

Mayonnaise wrote:I don't have access to any old hardware... but I do have access to a really old developer.

He used to work for Bell Labs on a computer that took up several rooms and had vacuum tubes involved. Then he worked on punch cards... then in COBOL.

Is his name Louis Black?

This is the perfect title for this thread. (turns to wife."Honey,their talking techno-stuff again") :(

I have programmed in COBOL myself. :D: That language is English Teacher Approved.

And then there was the story Grace Hopper used to tell about being at an international conference and a bunch of them were going to go out for dinner and they did not have a common language, so they held their discussions in COBOL.

Years ago at the place I worked at,the counterman kept calling this one customer "Mr Bendejo" . the customer was getting a little pissed off when looked at the customers ID over the counterman's shoulder. I whispered in his ear,"It's pronounced "Bejorano". Dumbass,cracker,whiteboys. :mad:

darph nader wrote:looked at the customers ID over the counterman's shoulder. I whispered in his ear,"It's pronounced "Bejorano". Dumbass,cracker,whiteboys. :mad:

Spanish "should" be your first language darph. You never screw up in Spanish. :D: The Baker has taught you well. ;)

dhcalva wrote:I have programmed in COBOL myself. :D: That language is English Teacher Approved.

I speak COBOL, too...believe it or not, in 2000-2003 at the University of North Florida, it was REQUIRED for an Information Systems/Information Science degree...I had three sememsters of it, including our backbreaker (weed out the weaklings, grasshopper...that which does not kill you makes you stronger!) course, File Structures.

Oh...and I prefer C# or Java. MUCH better for real programming!

Main Streeter wrote:Spanish "should" be your first language darph. You never screw up in Spanish. :D: The Baker has taught you well. ;)

Works for me,"Uno cerveza mas,por favor". :D:

darph nader wrote:"Uno cerveza mas,por favor". :D:

Darph, think this should be una cerveza. Aaaah, you know how I dislike correcting you in front of mil. Thanks for dos mil buddy.

hobie16 wrote:Is his name Louis Black?

No. Edward. It's my maternal grandfather. My mom is a developer too. She came in at punch cards back in college. They figured I'd follow but I'm crap at math, so I'm an Animator instead. *Giggle.* I do a little Actionscripting but yeah...

Meanwhile my father is spectacularly bad at computers. He once uninstalled Windows AND DOS from our 486 while trying to install his brand new shiny CD-ROM drive. He did NOT however, format the drive. The computer shop guys were able to re-install it and all our files were still there. We're still not sure how he managed that.