in reply to Perl is how old ?!

Yeah, back when those youngsters were learning how to run the remote control to their TV, us 'old' people were sitting in front of our CRT screen amazed at how cool Lynx was and how we could Telnet to MUD's and fight other people with swords.... :) those were the days, I'll tell you.

Now imagine how old the original COBOL programmers feel:

'When I was coding those paragraphs, I didn't have a CRT screen, we did everything on paper first, big flow charts that would cover your bed at night, and then we punched out the whole thing on little cards and had the terminal operator enter it for us!'

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RE: (2) Perl is how old ?! (uphill both ways)
by ybiC (Prior) on Jul 27, 2000 at 16:19 UTC
    buzzcutbuddha forgot:
    COBOL programmers feel: "Uphill, both ways, in 4 feet of snow"

    Update: but then remembered "barefoot, and we didn't have flowchart templates..."
        LOL,
        ybiC