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Too easy...
All yours for tomorrow.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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One of the designers of COBOL
Jean E. Sammet - Wikipedia
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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And possibly RIP COBOL itself.
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What, so this year will be The Year?
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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The are millions of lines of code written in COBOL, mostly in critical legacy systems (such as the banking system). While it may be possible to replace them with code written in a modern language, the costs (and risk!) of doing so are too high.
I expect that COBOL (and COBOL programmers) will still be with us for quite a while.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I read somewhere that somebody in Australia, maybe a bank, spent 800 million dollars to replace their systems written in COBOL.
For that kind of money, you could have kept COBOL going for 100 years using code coolies from India! 
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For lunch today, I'm having a bun filled with ham and pineapple. That's Hawaii roll.
Early today - blame herself!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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careful you don't drop it, that's Los Alamos
Sin tack
the any key okay
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If said sandwich was large enough (and why wouldn't it be), would it be Maui grande?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Mine just had tissue paper in the middle.. 
I'd asked for a Toulouse Roll.
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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That's a poi excuse for a pun.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Hula known that you'd post that? I was hoping I'd lava a lot at today's entry, but mauna loa quality pun would be difficult to find.
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Before one can rightfully use Hawaii as part of a pun, they must first be able to correctly pronounce the name of their state fish, the Humuhumunukunukuapua`a[^]. 
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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"Gerald"
The one I met was called Gerald. I can pronounce that!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Gerald, you say. I think that I met his cousin Hank while snorkeling in Hanauma Bay[^].
As far as the pronunciation, it's not that bad.
Hu mu hu mu nu ku nu ku a pu a a
who moo who moo new coo new coo ah poo ah ah With the Hawaiian, you pronounce all the vowels. They have a highway named Likelike and it sounds like leaky-leaky, not like-like.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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*groan*
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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"a whimper rather than a bang"? Could be. Or ... Dyson sphere? Let's go there and find out!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Are both images made by the Hubble telescope ?
If so, It is impressive the level of improvements they made to the image capture algos.
I'd rather be phishing!
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the wide field camera 3 installed in 2008.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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God took it. 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Why were US losses so much higher?
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Because we stuck our noses in there.
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