Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix5.panix.com!not-for-mail From: Rich Alderson Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: COBOL and tricks Date: 29 Oct 2022 16:47:58 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 35 Sender: alderson+news@panix5.panix.com Message-ID: References: <871quvs7m8.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> <2aadnYfne4Fc9Er_nZ2dnUU7-WnNnZ2d@earthlink.com> <20220724211332.db65ec16fab49db469cd53a9@127.0.0.1> <2005974342.680475137.998087.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="panix5.panix.com:166.84.1.5"; logging-data="11746"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 22.3 Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:222211 comp.os.linux.misc:35816 Charles Richmond writes: > On 7/25/2022 4:45 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote: [ snip ] >> Speak to Kurt. >> IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. >> PROGRAM-ID. STREK. >> AUTHOR. KURT WILHELM. >> INSTALLATION. OAKLAND UNIVERSITY. >> DATE-WRITTEN. COMPLETED SEPTEMBER 1, 1979. >> * >> ******************************************************* >> * STAR_TREK SIMULATES AN OUTER SPACE ADVENTURE GAME * >> * ON A REMOTE TERMINAL. THE USER COMMANDS THE U.S.S. * >> * ENTERPRISE, AND THRU VARIOUS OFFENSIVE AND DEFEN- * >> * SIVE COMMANDS, TRAVELS THROUGHOUT THE GALAXY ON A * >> * MISSION TO DESTROY ALL KLINGONS, WHICH ALSO MANEU- * >> * VER AND FIRE ON THE ENTERPRISE. * >> ******************************************************* >> ^^^^^^^^^^ > This is an early example of what is known as "Enterprise software". > ;-) Oh my $DEITY. -- Rich Alderson news@alderson.users.panix.com Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur, omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus. --Galen