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i am looking forward to Python replacing COBOL. of course, we will need to teach them how to type in lower case (i doubt anyone would want to make AN UPPER CASE PYTHON).
FYI: i remember my college freshman year. i was submitting jobs on punch cards to the OS/MFT mainframe running on "large" System/360 with job names punched in lower case (i still remember how to do that). they showed up in UPPER CASE on the operator console (which had
no lower case capability at all). the job names would not match when they attempted to cancel my jobs.
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What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two languages? Bilingual. One language? American.
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it probably refers to the CICS software. i do know that IBM made software named CICS that ran on a number of their mainframe operating systems, i am not aware of any software with a like name running on Windows or any other OS. given that the mainframe version of CICS has much of its code written in mainframe assembler, i have doubts that software was ported to other architectures. but i cannot rule out anyone, including IBM, reimplementing CICS in another language for another architecture. the model of CICS is similar to a web server. i would not be surprised to see web server components in an alternate implementation.
Tradition is peer pressure from dead people
What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two languages? Bilingual. One language? American.
