Funny

[Dov Isaacs]

Au contraire ... The IF THEN ELSE and DO WHILE structures
did exist at that timeframe in a language called COBOL
(COmmon Business Oriented Language). As an undergrad at MIT
and an MBA student at Cornell, writing applications in COBOL
and System/360 Assembler language more than paid for my tuition
and my photography habit.

Ironically, I don't know anything that can be done in any
of today's "modern" programming languages that couldn't be
done in either Assembler or COBOL or some combination of
same a hell of a lot more efficiently! Most of today's
software done with such "modern" programming languages is
relatively buggy, slow, and bloated compared to what we did
back then. 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: lists.frameusers.com 
>  On Behalf Of Jim Light
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 2:41 PM
> To: framers at frameusers.com
> Subject: RE: Funny
> 
> I too remember typing in my college programming jobs on an 
> 029 Key Punch
> and submitting them over the counter at the computer center. That old
> IBM 360/67 had less processing power than my laptop. A "high-Level"
> language was FORTRAN. C++ didn't exist. In fact, there were no
> if-then-else, do-while, and other constructs until they invented
> Structured FORTRAN. 
>