> I hated everything about cobol. I thought it was a shit language and the people who taught me cobol were shit.
Well you probably weren't that far off on the former point.
>But when he saw the printer slowly rolling out sawtooth waves and square waves of various frequencies, he completely lost it & yelled at me for wasting the precious resources of the dot matrix printer to do frivolous nonsense. I got a F on cobol.
Maybe, but you get an A in my book. Because the image you just put into my head is magnitudes of awesome. The IBM-type manager yelling at this 16 year old hackerish kid for taking a computer joy ride. The same sort of computer joy ride that probably comprised the whole reason he had a job in the first place.
The irony is sweet (With a bitter aftertaste.), and I'm sorry you had to go through that.
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> I hated everything about cobol. I thought it was a shit language and the people who taught me cobol were shit.
Well you probably weren't that far off on the former point.
>But when he saw the printer slowly rolling out sawtooth waves and square waves of various frequencies, he completely lost it & yelled at me for wasting the precious resources of the dot matrix printer to do frivolous nonsense. I got a F on cobol.
Maybe, but you get an A in my book. Because the image you just put into my head is magnitudes of awesome. The IBM-type manager yelling at this 16 year old hackerish kid for taking a computer joy ride. The same sort of computer joy ride that probably comprised the whole reason he had a job in the first place.
The irony is sweet (With a bitter aftertaste.), and I'm sorry you had to go through that.