Confession: I got through a 41 year career in IT, mostly in banking and government, without ever compiling or running a COBOL program. I recently saw A very short introduction to COBOL, which describes how to install COBOL on a Mac and how to compile and run a very simple COBOL program. So I tried this on Ubuntu Linux 20.04.
Continue readingIrish Class, February 1, 2016
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| Cuireann duine snaidhm lena theanga nach bhfuasclóidh a fhiacla. | A person ties a knot with his tongue that his teeth cannot loosen. | He gets married. |
| Beidh lá eile ag an bPaorach. | Better luck next time. | “Power will have another day” [“Power” is not anyone in particular] |
| an rud nach binn le duine ní chluineann sé é. | The thing that is not sweet [to the ear] is not heard. | |
A few of you remember this technology.
The link between atmospheric CO2 and rising global temperatures cannot be dismissed as a case of “correlation and causality.” Continue reading
Found on a shelf in my garage:
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“….from the nightmares I have every time I get a new computer and my old one just gets set aside ‘in case I need it later.'”
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With an important qualification:
Grace Hopper, the brains behind Cobol, a seminal language that arrived in 1959 and is still used today. Apparently, if you’re biologically incapable of growing a beard, the programming gods cut you some slack.
