[nflug] You qualify as a Dinosaur if ...

[Robert Meyer]

I remember having to convert an entire 250000 line FORTRAN program (FORTRAN is always spelled in caps) from a bizarre HP fortran dialect that allowed line numbers to start in column 1.  The version of the compiler that I had on Unix wouldn't allow that.  While I was sitting there with 3 managers standing behind me, arguing over who they were going to assign to the project, I typed in vi (that's vee eye, not vye, six or any other variation) the following: :1,$s/^\([0-9]*\)\( \)/\2\1/   Now a *real* dinosaur can explain just exactly what that did.  So vi did it's thing and about 3 seconds later, I announced: "It's fixed".  The prompted the managers to stop talking and in unison ask "What?".  I told them it was fixed and fed it to the compiler.  An hour later (yeah, in the days when machines were slower than modern PDAs), it gave me an a.out file (actually, I named it in the compiler but it was an a.out type of file).  I still didn't get a raise...

I wonder if I can find the 'Real Programmers' file that I used to have...

Real Programmers don't write in BASIC.  Actually, no programmers write in BASIC after the age of 12.

Cheers!

Bob

----- Original Message ----
From: Tyler Poland <tyler.poland at gmail.com>
To: nflug at nflug.org
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 8:11:20 PM
Subject: Re: [nflug] You qualify as a Dinosaur if ...

I laughed... I had to look up ABEND about three weeks ago becuase one of our vendors had a service outage and they explained it by saying the system had ABEND and had been patched.  I wonder which came first "ABEND" or "A Bender" ;)


 

Tyler Poland

 

On 4/13/07, Richard Hubbard <rhubby at yahoo.com> wrote:
Or maybe I should have said:
do 10 I=1,10
print(19H, Get off my lawn!)
10 continue

Richard Hubbard

Technology Solutions Inc

----- Original Message ----
From: Richard Hubbard <rhubby at yahoo.com>
To: nflug at nflug.org
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 6:07:20 PM

Subject: Re: [nflug] You qualify as a Dinosaur if ...

Get off my lawn, you whippernsapper!

Richard Hubbard
Technology Solutions Inc

----- Original Message ----
From: Ken Smith <
kensmith at cse.Buffalo.EDU>
To: nflug at nflug.org
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 6:01:34 PM
Subject: [nflug] You qualify as a Dinosaur if ...


You are at least in the running for being a Dinosaur if you have a clue

what "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal" (which is available at
"http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~kensmith/rpgm.txt";;) is a parody of.  You

qualify as a Dinosaur if you can read it and actually "get" some of the
jokes in it.  If you're a true Dinosaur it will leave you rolling on the
floor laughing (or it did the first time you read it :-).  It's gotten

to the point I can't give it out to anyone any more, nobody gets any of
it.

--
                                               Ken Smith
- From there to here, from here to      |       
kensmith at cse.buffalo.edu
there, funny things are everywhere.   |
                     - Theodore Geisel |

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