The State of the GUI

[rikki cattermole]

On 29/10/2018 9:28 AM, Abdulhaq wrote:
> 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 :-).

Both profit and pleasure (never completed it).
It meant I didn't have to manually port some code.

And yeah its changed a bit, quite a few different specs all quite 
different in slight ways.