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I’ve actually got an Excel question. Who’s the resident office drone that can answer it?

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I’m a mainframer so; cobol (believe it or not) and Natural are used on a pretty much daily basis.

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DB2

  • DB do
  • DB don’t

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Why do I keep checking this thread?

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I have never heard of either of these :blush:

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TOR Browser

  • PHWOAR (Yes)
  • NOOOAR (No)

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  • JIRA
  • I 'ardly know 'er!

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I would say most if not all large companies/corporations use Cobol. I know all the big banks do, having worked for Barclays and HBOS.

No-one is teaching these languages etc in universities. The fact you’ve not heard of it is indicative of what may eventually be a huge issue once my generation of developers have retired/died. Who will maintain all the legacy systems, as it’s simply not possible to just re-write them all in C or .Net

“cobol was designed in 1959”!!!

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does anyone ever make battlestar galactica jokes?

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They’re developers. Of course people make battlestar galactica jokes.

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Surprisingly not (thank fuck)

I do remember thinking it was the worst name I’d ever heard for a planet but I guess if you’d never heard of the ancient computer language it may sound quite spacey.

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ftfy :rofl: :joy: :vulcan_salute: :nerd_face: :robot:

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1999 was a good year to be a COBOL programmer.

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Yeah I think a fair few people made quite a lot of dosh out of y2k. I didn’t however as I was less than a year into a new job with the Halifax and not involved in it at all, ah well maybe I’ll get cryogenically frozen and get myself woken up for y3k!

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all jobs are basically the same aren’t they

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office ones i mean

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Nah lumberjacking’s the same too.

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GIS: Geographic information systems:

  • ArcGIS
  • QGIS
  • Global Mapper
  • MapInfo
  • Nope

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See that MapInfo vote? Pity me.

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