[rescue] flamewar question: Perl

[Ken Hansen]

I used IBM 370 assembler to code a *trivial* accounting package for a 8 week
course at a technical school (Computer Learning Center - circa 1985-1986. We used
*coding forms* and got three runs a day - once before lunch, once before the end
of class, and once overnight... That was an austere environment to work in... For
those that don't know, a coding form is a sheet of graph paper held sideways, and
you write your code inside the little boxes, then you submit your forms to an
operator/key punch person that takes your "hand written" code and puts it into
card-image files for later execution...

Ken

Brian Hechinger wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 04:04:50PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> >
> > FORTRAN was a school requirement, COBOL/370 Assembler was a Job Requirement,
> > the rest was by choice...
>
> i had to learn 370 in college.  funny you should mention that though, a friend
> of mine just put hercules on a linux box and installed VM/370 on it.  it comes
> with an assembler.  it may be time to dust off myt 370 books and skills and
> start hacking 370/asm again. :)
>
> -brian
>
> ps: i didn't know anyone actually wrote 370 asm for anything serious. :)
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