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Quote #381 : But How Do You Feel About COBOL? Isn't That From The Old Testament?
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: But how do you feel about COBOL?
Isn't that from the Old Testament? Do we have to wear a yarmulke when we
write in it?
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(typical exchange from alt.religion.computers)
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Computers have rights, too. Everyone talks about the rights of animals, but so far nothing has been said about the tragic plight of computers the world over.
They are subjected to the greatest horror ever conceived...
What other people do we always feel we could do better.
Unfortunately we do not have the same feeling about what we ourselves do. -- E.M. Ciora...
Springfield will have its first annual "Do What You Feel" Festival this Saturday, whenever you feel like showing up!
It'll be a welcome change from our annual, "Do As We Say" Festival started by German settlers in 1946....
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out we do and they don't.
We all do fade as a leaf. -- Old Testament -- Isaiah lxiv, 6
Computers operators do it from memory.
If computers save time, when do we get it back?
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do.
We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about....