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Okay why do these occupy the covers of books like "Learn XYZ, Master ABC" all programming books? It's to say the book's contents would go extinct soon?
Or Dinos do programming too ?
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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What would you put on the cover?
(BTW Dinosaurs did not go extinct, they are all around us).
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Will you ever tire of picking on Cobal programmers?
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MehGerbil wrote:
Will you ever tire of picking on Cobal
programmers?
Are they the dinosaurs, the fish (who've out lasted numerous air-breathing orders of phylum Chordata), or the vegetables, er, plants?
"Seize the day" - Horace
"It's not what he doesn't know that scares me; it's what he knows for sure that just ain't so!" - Will Rogers, said by him about Herbert Hoover
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Something like this[^] ?
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Yep, works for me!
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Of course Dinosaurs program
they even have thier own languages - VB and Cobol
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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And their own operating system: unix. 
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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nah thats for small mammals, its vax for dino's
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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RSX-11M! I won't have a word said against it!
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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you probably wont as you are the only one left who remembers it
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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it could be a lot worse
how about linc?
(i think it stood for either "Lucky Its Not Cobol" or "Laugh I Nearly Cried")
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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It's worse than you think: LINC is still with us, renamed to Unisys Enterprise Application Environment[^]
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Dont remind me I used to work for that bunch of cowboys
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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LMAO ever hear of FORTRAN? When COBOL was born, FORTRAN was nearly in high school, and we have a number of FORTRAN programmers here.
"Seize the day" - Horace
"It's not what he doesn't know that scares me; it's what he knows for sure that just ain't so!" - Will Rogers, said by him about Herbert Hoover
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Public Domain images. Cheap publishers.
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VuNic wrote: Okay why do these occupy the covers of books like "Learn XYZ, Master ABC" all
programming books?
Not exactly sure what you mean.
O'Reilly has a specific policy about putting animals on their covers and there is a page in the book that explains it.
Other than that I can't recall seeing other books with dinosaurs on them, not to the extent that it is normal.
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Because they're written by people with the wrong kind of creativity for designing book covers.
Mind you, I'd like to see someone with the right kind of creativity for designing book covers actually write a programming book -- NOT!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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