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  • + 'Battlestar Galactica' [ '~ch. cite prolongation information'] + 'cobol'

    united states of america constitutional signaturee gate admin 2009

  • + 'Battlestar Galactica' [ '~ch. cite prolongation information'] + 'cobol'

    Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009

  • In fact you can even do your clients a big favor by bringing back their old cobol, Foxpro and dBase Programs orgainally written for them, and “scrapped” by the windows way of assimilating everyting in its path, and getting their businesses to run better now that they are running on what were once well designed custom programs that were not windows compliant, but run excelelentyy under Linux.

    Microsoft’s Vista Problem, by the Numbers - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • That said I would not want to drive it down from our home in Washington and back again each year we would be beat to death, especially in towns like Vallarta with the cobol stone streets.

    Page 2 2008

  • I used a cobol programme on a Data General mini computer to directly control the output to a dot matrix printer and I designed some custom pre-printed stationary using real cut and paste to get the logos in the right places.

    Plus ca change neil h 2006

  • This seems to be the history of Google: Google Search (1997) BASIC (1975). reply cobol guru

    Google’s Go: A New Programming Language That’s Python Meets C++ Jason Kincaid 2005

  • "Any IT professional worth anything would have to be questioning the rational of buying an antiquated cobol based system ..."

    Computerworld imogen_stuart@idg.com.au 2010

  • "Any IT professional worth anything would have to be questioning the rational of buying an antiquated cobol based system ..."

    Computerworld 2010

  • "Any IT professional worth anything would have to be questioning the rational of buying an antiquated cobol based system ..."

    Computerworld 2010

  • "Any IT professional worth anything would have to be questioning the rational of buying an antiquated cobol based system ..."

    Computerworld imogen_stuart@idg.com.au 2010

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