Cobol

Bin Laden Sighted In Karachi; May Turn Self In
Reports of Osama Bin Laden's whereabouts took a new turn this week when a Pakistani woman reported sighting a tall man in a white robe with matching turban hit his head on a low doorway. The woman's suspicions about the identity of the man were further aroused when she noticed the entrance led to a recording stud... 18 Jan 2008 16:10

OT: Glacial retreat (was OT: Thanksgiving)
In the current issue of "Scientific American" (Feb. 2008) there is an article on glaciers and icecaps. One part of the article discusses why ice added to water doesn't raise the water level; more important are the conclusions from scientists working in situ on the icecaps: Greenland icecap: net - shrinking Eas... 17 Jan 2008 12:39

Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineersof Tomorrow?
Alistair wrote: That may be true, but a huge space ship flying out to the outer reaches of jupiter? You would think that if they could build that, they could build a self-programming computer. One of the things in that movie that really paints it in a 1960's time frame is the size of the rooms tha... 17 Jan 2008 09:50

Birth of New Dimension
http://www.linuxtoday.com/news/2008011602326OPBZSV From the link news above, what computer languages could play a better role on such platform? I bet I would still use my Cobol (MF) by generating Enterprise Java Beans for such platform, I mean creating a new codes for new generations to come.... but eventually ot... 16 Jan 2008 19:47

SPARQL Query Technology
"Charles Hottel" <chottel(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message news:13ot278c755u96b(a)corp.supernews.com... I thougth that some here might be interested in this. Opps left off the link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20080115/tc_infoworld/94583_1 ... 16 Jan 2008 19:14

OT: SPARQL Query Technology
I thougth that some here might be interested in this. ... 16 Jan 2008 17:34

COBOL and DB2 vs. Java and DB2
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:09:19 -0500, Robert <no(a)e.mail> wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:05:55 +1200, "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood(a)removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote: These decisions are taken at a level that couldn't care less about performance, they care about having to spend a fortune developing and maint... 19 Jan 2008 07:22

OT: Head First Design Patterns and C#
In another thread I previously mentioned that I think this is a great book. The examples are in Java but I know some of you are primarily interested in C#. You can download the book examples in C# from: http://www.wickedlysmart.com/HeadFirst/HeadFirstDesignPatterns/HeadFirstPatternsIndex.html Also look for ... 15 Jan 2008 19:13

TRUNC(OPT) vs TRUNC(BIN) on IBM z series was Re: Quicksort recursiv
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:39:12 GMT, Arnold Trembley <arnold.trembley(a)worldnet.att.net> wrote: snip I believe this is configurable with Endevor. My shop uses Endevor, and I have no problems embedding PROCESS or CBL compile directives in my COBOL source code, and they work as expected. We recently had a... 17 Jan 2008 02:58

OT: Racial superiority / Intelligent design was Re:OT:Thanksgiving
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:31:08 +1300, Pete Dashwood wrote: "Judson McClendon" <judmc(a)sunvaley0.com> wrote in message news:d7Mij.50461$Mu4.2341(a)bignews7.bellsouth.net... "Howard Brazee" <howard(a)brazee.net> wrote: Mainly for that reason, if I HAD to have some belief system (other than the one I DO h... 25 Jan 2008 16:10