THE best strategy game of all times! :D

[pathfinder]

ya, I remember the name *shudder* I did NOT have to program in it....basic was hard enough!

[ColdSteel]

Yes, except it is COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented Language). The government used it almost exclusively at one point. It was very, very good at doing certain things. Which is why it hung around for so long. There are still a lot of COBOL production jobs running out there.

[This message has been edited by ColdSteel (edited 10 February 2001).]

[nmoppa]

COBOL basically was a computer lanquage used for accountantcy purposes, at least it was meant for that. Not such a bad language for those days, though!

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[nmoppa]

YES, Atrocities, It WAS you using these words to describe your feelings about the Tandy original computer bLaster of those days. May I assume you have also at least some knowledge about the ZX 80's I mentioned?

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PERHAPS THIS IS A GOOD DAY TO DIE <Worf facing another critical fight>

[Kuroth]

Uh Just for your Info 80% of the "Worlds"
computer code is still in Cobol!!!!

You guys talked about it as if it was some
old language no longer in use

I think there was something called COLBALT.

I program in both VB and Coble using DB2
and IMS...

p.s. You can even make web pages with Cobol
these days!!!!

[ColdSteel]

COBOL is also really good at producing formatted reports. I kinda enjoyed writing COBOL programs. Oh, the memories.. takes me back...(sigh).

[ColdSteel]

Kuroth, there is even a object oriented Version of COBOL now. It's a language that just rufuses to die, even though many would like it to just go away. The Government tried to kill it 15 years ago with ADA and you see how far that got. LOL.

I didn't know there was a COBALT language. My sincere apologies, Atrocities.