[ale] You know you're getting old....

[Scott Plante]

40 days?? You can learn it here in 100 seconds! :-P
https://youtu.be/7d7-etf-wNI

Just teasing, but that Fireship YT channel does have a whole collection of
fun "X in 100 seconds" videos that work as a good intro to some programming
language or framework you've either never heard of, or have heard of but
don't know what it's about.

On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 11:35 AM DJPfulio--- via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

>
> On 7/16/22 01:34, Ken Cochran wrote:
> > Re COBOL, didn't You-Know-Who try to replace/displace it with
> > PL/I?
>
> I was paid to code in a language very much like PL/I for 5 years on a
> real-time flight control system.  Sorta like Python (or BASIC), with
> semicolons and optimized matrix operations built-in, just compiled, not
> interpreted. Guidance calculations are often solved with matrix math.
>
> Nothing wrong with PL/I on EBCDIC systems, though I remember they were
> converting much of the true PL/I to Rexx when I left that job. Rexx is a
> fine language too, again, like python or bash.
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