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Pete Dashwood
Apr 30, 2013, 7:04:38 PM4/30/13
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http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/wms-murphyhill-age-2013/
Of course, "old" here is anyone over 30... :-)
Pete.
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"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."
Of course, "old" here is anyone over 30... :-)
Pete.
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"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."
docd...@panix.com
May 1, 2013, 10:58:03 AM5/1/13
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In article <aub107...@mid.individual.net>,
back that went something like this:
A recent retiree, aged 65, was in his garden working with his father, aged
92, planting beans. The son wanted to set up the beans on little wooden
tripods and the father wanted to plant them in lines.
The disagreement grew more heated and finally the son gently reminded his
father that this was his garden and it'd be planted the way he wanted.
This caused the older man to stand up and walk off, exclaiming 'Durned
kids! They reach 60 and they think they know everything!'
DD
Pete Dashwood <dash...@removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote:
>http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/wms-murphyhill-age-2013/
>
>Of course, "old" here is anyone over 30... :-)
There was an attempt at humor in a Reader's Digest a half-century or so
>http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/wms-murphyhill-age-2013/
>
>Of course, "old" here is anyone over 30... :-)
back that went something like this:
A recent retiree, aged 65, was in his garden working with his father, aged
92, planting beans. The son wanted to set up the beans on little wooden
tripods and the father wanted to plant them in lines.
The disagreement grew more heated and finally the son gently reminded his
father that this was his garden and it'd be planted the way he wanted.
This caused the older man to stand up and walk off, exclaiming 'Durned
kids! They reach 60 and they think they know everything!'
DD
Pete Dashwood
May 1, 2013, 6:08:14 PM5/1/13
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PatH
May 2, 2013, 7:57:10 AM5/2/13
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There was a feature on the Madison, Wi news last month about a COBOL programmer who was retiring. He worked for the State of Wis. and was touted as the "oldest active COBOL programmer working for the state", he was 65. I thought "damn I'm older than he is and I'm still writing code". Good news is I'm giving my retirement notice today. June 28th is my last day of coding.
PatH...trying not to be the oldest living COBOL programmer"
PatH...trying not to be the oldest living COBOL programmer"
Pete Dashwood
May 2, 2013, 8:06:16 AM5/2/13
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plan to keepdoing it as long as Ican see and type.
docd...@panix.com
May 2, 2013, 10:22:41 AM5/2/13
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In article <cb56bc25-9ba5-40eb...@googlegroups.com>,
PatH <ph...@certcoinc.com> wrote:
[snip]
>Good news is I'm giving my retirement notice today. June 28th
>is my last day of coding.
Congratulations on your change in status; may you live and enjoy many new
sunrises.
'Knowing where to hit machine' can be a fun skill to invoice.
DD
PatH <ph...@certcoinc.com> wrote:
[snip]
>Good news is I'm giving my retirement notice today. June 28th
>is my last day of coding.
sunrises.
'Knowing where to hit machine' can be a fun skill to invoice.
DD
Charles Hottel
May 3, 2013, 12:35:58 AM5/3/13
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"Pete Dashwood" <dash...@removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote in message
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men from being unfaithful:
It is callled: cyanide :-)
iNFO_rene
May 3, 2013, 4:25:14 AM5/3/13
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On May 2, 7:57 pm, PatH <ph...@certcoinc.com> wrote:
> There was a feature on the Madison, Wi news last month about a COBOL programmer who was retiring. He worked for the State of Wis. and was touted as the "oldest active COBOL programmer working for the state", he was 65. I thought "damn I'm older than he is and I'm still writing code". Good news is I'm giving my retirement notice today. June 28th is my last day of coding.
>
> PatH...trying not to be the oldest living COBOL programmer"
That's a good age and if you're coding Cobol... you must have enjoyed
> There was a feature on the Madison, Wi news last month about a COBOL programmer who was retiring. He worked for the State of Wis. and was touted as the "oldest active COBOL programmer working for the state", he was 65. I thought "damn I'm older than he is and I'm still writing code". Good news is I'm giving my retirement notice today. June 28th is my last day of coding.
>
> PatH...trying not to be the oldest living COBOL programmer"
yourself a lot. I am 46, going 47 and I still think of creating
another product of my own after finishing two. Guess I will not stop
coding as well as long as anybody need your service.
I remember my Boss (American, Larry Harmeyer) way back my 3rd
programming job in Saudi Arabia... he is the one who'd given me this
enthusiasm creating apps for people in need. I might as well should
thank him in here :)
Pete Dashwood
May 3, 2013, 7:11:37 AM5/3/13
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The "enthusiasm for creating apps for people in need" is indeed the very
heart of programming. Like you, I inherited my own dose of this from mentors
much older and wiser than me, when I was very young. It has never left me
and I still get a kick out of seeing people get computer software that helps
them.
It is right and proper to acknowledge the people who set us on the path and
passed on their own enthusiasm to us. In my case, some of these men are no
longer with us, but I do think of them sometimes, and I hope I have honoured
the trust they put in me.
I also get a lot of joy out of seeing people I worked with and trained,
going on to really good jobs and spreading the light... :-)
After 48 years of IT I can honestly say I have never regretted choosing it
as a career.
It took me all over the world and it led me to work with some amazing
characters.
The world has changed, technology has changed, programming, as we understood
it, may be a fading skill.
But I still get the same buzz today when I see a program I wrote working, as
I did the very first time, all those years ago.
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