The State of the GUI

[Abdulhaq]

On Sunday, 28 October 2018 at 07:30:54 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:
> On 28/10/2018 8:27 PM, Abdulhaq wrote:
>> 
>> I just had vision of Andrei, waking up after a nightmare, 
>> pouring with sweat and his wife says to him 'whats wrong, 
>> what's wrong' and he says 'i had a nightmare. D reached 1 
>> million developers' and she says ' I thought that's what you 
>> wanted' and he says 'they were all ex-COBOL developers'
>
> That is certainly chuckle worthy. But at least the foundation 
> would have a lot of money to splash around giving them what 
> they want!

So was the COBOL parser for profit or pleasure? Was a compiler 
ever written? What did you write the parser in? I did a COBOL 
training course in Chicago in 1986 and  wrote the programs on a 
type of grid paper. I guess it's changed a bit since then :-).