Marty Heyman @ Symas

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Fern's husband. Pippen's valet. Symas's Cat Herder. COBOLworx's "SME". ex-Keypunch Operator

A friend of the #gcobol (#gcc #cobol) project sent us an anthill of code (62Kloc of COBOL and 6Kloc of copybooks) that doesn't compile. Jim's got fixes for some of the problems and we're cataloging the rest. The team's been waiting for some "real code" so this is very exciting!

Happy to chat about looking at yours!

@hyc I KNEW IT!!!
@mastohost Thanks for the updates. SH*T happens.
@Ollivdb @EUCommission You might note that "Clean tech" (as in addressing climate change) and billions for remilitarization of Europe are antithetical.
@Lazarou Your definition of "better countries" or theirs? Just curious.
@wadayasutaka I thought about this reference to handwriting. A decade after joining IBM and its keyboard culture, I took up handwriting, simple English. I return from my immersions in keying. #leichturm1917 #moleskine #pelikan #fountainpen #lamy
@ZoidbergForPresident I my acoustic instruments.
@zrzz @wadayasutaka and low signal to noise ratio just like comments on slashdot, hackernews, etc.
@wadayasutaka Who is "we?" "We" built videogames and became them. "We" built spreadsheets and word-processors and became them. "We" also obsoleted much of their commercial base with Open Source alternatives that slowly eat into their profits. And "We" are on a "Network Affect" wannabe with increasing numbers of "stickiness" (attention attraction). #foss #opensource
@Natasha_Jay Ever since Edsgar Dijkstra dismissed COBOL as irrelevant and unusable, the industry has followed his lead into ever more obfuscation and elitism. He set the stage for Computational Scientism. Any competent experienced programmer can read and modify COBOL with a few days of effort. It's Just Work™