COBOL Programmers Needed

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  1. Wow, I have a special place in my heart for RAZR.
     
    #11     Apr 10, 2020
  2. southall

    southall

    RAZF!!!
     
    #12     Apr 10, 2020
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  3. Turveyd

    Turveyd

    30years ago did some for a company i worked for, remember overly annoying anal spacing requirement but thats about it.

    History is...

    6809 dragon 32
    Z80a spectrum
    6510 c64
    6502 bbc micro
    68020 amiga 1200
    Quick basic PC
    Cobol pc
    Paradox PC
    Oracle forms PC
    C+ pc
    Vb6 \ access 97 pc ( still most of my work newer access )
    Delphi
    Macromedia like powerpoint
    Vb.net 2005 (hateful)
    Java for google sheets.
    Java for Android apps

    Defo time to retire! Liked assembly and writing games, just business since.
     
    #13     Apr 10, 2020
  4. southall

    southall

    Basic, Z80, 6502, C, Miranda, M68000, Modula-2, SmallTalk, Prolog, Oberon, C++, Java, Python, Objective C.
    Spectrum, BBC, Amiga, PC, Mac....

    I too got interested in Programming with Z80 assembly..

    HTML, JSP, Servlets and SQL databases between 2000 and 2007. Was horrible and depressing.

    Since 2015 i have been doing Java desktop development again. Like it was 1998 all over again.
    Beats Javascript and all the Web shite. Feel much better and get paid $200K a year to do it as well.
     
    #14     Apr 10, 2020
  5. Turveyd

    Turveyd

    And SQL don't really count as a language mind to me, just got handed someone elses CRM system VB6 linked to SQL back end, the code using SQL to write every text box or retrieve is so damn long, 1170 pages if printed, nightmare.

    $200K sounds nice aswell, have to move to London to get 1/2 that money in the UK then no where to ride my mountain bike so screw that.
     
    #15     Apr 10, 2020
  6. southall

    southall

    Hope it pays well, cant you find something a bit more fun?
     
    #16     Apr 10, 2020
  7. Turveyd

    Turveyd


    Think I'll knock the big program on the head, written by someone who was defo paid by the hour, not even a big system, seems to have everything written twice aswell, very strange.


    Got work from old business partner back when we used to do Lean management all over the UK, fun times on the pull every night, rare we failed :) Bored sales rep's, good times!
     
    #17     Apr 10, 2020
  8. southall

    southall

    haha, multiple frameworks in the same code base. You gotta love shitly done code. If everything was neat and tidy (and worked properly) there would be a lot less work for us to do.
     
    #18     Apr 10, 2020
  9. Turveyd

    Turveyd

    All little procedures, makes it impossible to just read the damn code, read abit, go hunt the hidden procedure which has more hidden procedures arrrrgghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
     
    #19     Apr 10, 2020
  10. FrankInLa

    FrankInLa

    40 year old mainframes housed in NJ right next to Trump's golf course. What an epic picture of the status quo.

     
    #20     Apr 10, 2020
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