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sjvn
@sjvn@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Happy Halloween from your friends on the COBOL maintenance team!

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Lizzie vox populi, vox dei
@Lizette603_23@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@sjvn hahahahha

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tessarakt
@tessarakt@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@sjvn Is there an exit strategy? @Habrok42

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sjvn
@sjvn@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@tessarakt @Habrok42 Alas, no. Their arms are too short to reach the doorknobs. All they can do is hope for a meteor strike.

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Mike Sax
@mikesax@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@sjvn COBOL maintenance team by day… Portland ICE protest crew by night! 😁

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🇳🇿 :tinoflag: 💉*8 Roger
@rogerparkinson@mastodon.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@sjvn dinosaurs in that they are very old, but not dinosaurs in that they are extinct. Lots of ancient COBOL is still running and doing vital service.

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Obot 50549535
@obot50549535@left-tusk.com replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@sjvn Prompted me to go check -- and, yes, the Debian package repository has a Cobol compiler.

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Shawn Mendes
@Shawn_Mendes98@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@sjvn hello happy Halloween 🎃🎃🎃

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Raven Luni
@RavenLuni@furry.engineer replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@sjvn Is that still a thing? I know COBOL - probably one of the last to be taught it :p

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sjvn
@sjvn@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@RavenLuni It's still alive and, well maybe not "well," but active anyway in banks, insurance companies, the IRS etc.

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Rome0
@romion00bie@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@sjvn I didn't knew that Dinosaurs can code! 😀

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Lily
@lillykinkkk@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@sjvn looks good

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Gobabu
@Gobabu@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@sjvn
Two fingers typists ?

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Noel Kelly
@gnoll110@ruby.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@sjvn
@neontapir

Was just reminded this week, in a couple of months [16 Jan], is forty years since I started my first full time job. A COBOL job.

Were did you get the team kit?

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Allan Jackson
@Allanjackson05@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@sjvn happy Halloween, from new York

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HowToPhil (Phillip R)
@howtophil@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@sjvn Pft. Bunch of dinosaurs coding COBOL. Not surprising

;)

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David W. Jones
@dancingtreefrog@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@sjvn This is what all offices will sound like when voice interaction with office computers becomes standard.

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Anne Delong
@Anne_Delong@musician.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@sjvn

Since there's no ALT text: The image shows a room with dinosaurs seated at desks, busily operating modern-looking computer equipment.

#COBOL #dinosaurs #computers

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Democracy for life
@DemocracyForLife@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@sjvn I do not believe you guys didn't get the evening off. Thank you for working for us. Happy Halloween I will eat plenty of chocolate just for you

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Wokebloke for Democracy
@dougiec3@libretooth.gr replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@sjvn
And I thought COBOL was extinct!

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Alexander Cole
@Alex63@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@sjvn Happy Halloween 🎃 let's get things pumped up

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CuriousMatter
@CuriousMatter@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@sjvn One of your monitors should have dressed up as a line printer and one of the keyboards should have dressed up as a punch card reader.

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kadus
@kadus@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@sjvn No one in this room is able to use shortcuts🦖

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Leela Torres
@LeelaTorres@ieji.de replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@sjvn
I so love their self irony 🙌

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Wulfric
@wulfric@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@sjvn Aren't T-Rex a bit young to know COBOL?

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SamuelJohnson
@samueljohnson@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@sjvn 👏😀

I worked on COBOL on VMS once and endured "Are you out of the working storage section yet" from an officemate using PL/1 and a believer in "throwaway code" (appropriately, it was unreadable gibberish).

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