Python and COBOL

[François Pinard]

[Alex Martelli]

> The power of Cobol (and, ok, some SQL on the side) was simply _awesome_
> compared with the living hell that it was to make CSP do anything even
> slightly different from what its designers (?) had in mind...

I once told a friend (Hrvoje, I think), that one strange adventure has been
for me to use a COBOL program to generate assembler meant for PPU COMPASS.
Some might remember PPUs were the system-specific processors within the
old CDC-6600.  My employer, at the time, asked me for various horrors in
rather quick succession, and I did not stay there for very long :-).

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard