I grew up on a PDP-11/34a in High School.
I taught myself MACRO-11 Assembler. Which was a lot like Motorola Assembly. Very Rich. Unlike Intel, Uggh...

Later, I found C, and I took to it like a duck in water. I actually rewrote one of Peter Nortons utilities and sent it back to them, I have a letter on their letter head while I was still a student, LOL.

Anyways... While learning C, I found out. It was first written on a PDP-8 and it was made to reflect the ASSEMBLY on that machine, so it was easy to transform almost right into assembly.

Everything was so simple in those days. C++ did to C what the Alphabet did to Math... (An algebra Joke my daughter loved... I love x. I have no problem with x. Except I hate finding him! My life would be a lot easier if X wasn't always needing to be found!)

My favorite FORTRAN joke:

God is Real... Unless declared otherwise...

For non programmers, variables starting with various letters had various types. G variables were a Real type (meaning a floating point/not an integer, like A-F, specifically I)

My next favorite FORTRAN nugget.
The values of numbers were stored in an array.
You could write:
7 = 5
And change the value of "7" to be equal to 5.
I believe this is called BAD PROGRAMMING.

Interrogating and loading registers...now that IS a blast from the past.

Pythonized COBOL, LOL, I like that.

We had an old saying, "Real programmers can write FORTRAN code in any language." If that didn't work, assembly would have to do, LOL.

Well done. Nice to see the light go on for people living on the dark side.

Over the years I've read articles about Curtis Sliwa and caught him in a few interviews and TV appearances. Seems like a good guy that I admire, but Like Dagny, won't give up until the last possible minute. He is David without a sling and Goliath is on the move.

Me dino's Swedish half heeds the advice of Buster.
The one quarter Irish immigrant in me and what started out as French and got their genes mixed after the British kicked them out of Canada ain't interested one bit.
No, I don't know if there's any Indian in me. Got asked that a couple of months ago.
My deceased father researched all that. Not about Buster, though.

NY, NY is not a place to seek perfection.

I was born in New York City and moved away during its hellhole heyday of 1978.

Once in a while some completely clueless person asks me, "Oh. Why don't you still live in New York?" and instantly broadcasts his or her worldview and self-loathing voting pattern.

This year's Republican NYC Mayoral Candidate, Curtis Sliwa, came to speak at the church I was a member of about 15 years ago. I waited in a long line to speak to him afterwards, just to commend him for staying in NYC during the late '70's to fight the madness, while I scramoosed the heck out of there with a lot less hesitation than Dagny had leaving NYC for Galt's Gulch.

It would be nice for Sliwa to have a chance in the upcoming NYC mayoral election, but the primary win by a Communist pretty much compels every sane person in the city to get behind the most likely candidate to beat him, and that is the incumbent Mayor Adams.

Well at least it's better than the pure Communist alternative.

Men med surströmming på? From what I can tell, even our Swedish DNA cannot automatically confer a liking for surströmming. Look up the videos of people opening a bulging tin of it to sample the stuff. Best done outdoors. An extremely mild auditory version is listening to bagpipes, again outdoors.

Here is a cat trying it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcvXF...

That's reassuring.

This is what happens when writers of articles and editors have no clue what they are writing about.

I am confident NOBODY on the DOGE team that codes called COBOL a "Regimen". Having worked briefly with COBOL and PL/X (a custom variant of PL/1)... I have better names for cobol.

But good luck getting rid of it. (I remember opening a DB table, and seeing a group of 8 fields, repeated like 24 times in a row, numbered, and when I asked WTH? I was told. Oh, that's how COBOL stores an ARRAY of options. I said "Well it's ONE way to do it. And it's clearly wrong"... But the normal way takes too many I/O cycles, LOL).

So, the upside of the COBOL is that it is working.
After that. Ughh.

In my book, you add another language inside the cobol code, a more modern language, like Python.
Make them interoperate. And slowly rewrite the system into Pythonized COBOL. Until you have nothing but Python remaining. Then refactor it to normal.

Otherwise, having worked on huge code bases. Good luck. It aint moving unless you just write a new version and switch.

Meanwhile... CitiBank still using their COBOL screens! While you scan your card and type a pin into a machine.

Actually, the incumbent "Independent" mayor is running for re-election, and is very likely to win.

It's Orwellian how well they control the messaging.

I just spoke to a cashier complaining about getting rid of the illegals who "do the jobs nobody wants to do".

I said, if I offered to pay you $1,000/hr to clean toilets would you?

So, it's about "At that price". you are right, they are willing to come here and work for far less.

But did you know they send a TON of money back home, so it doesn't help our economy. Next, because they support their family back home, they have learned they can file income taxes, and get a REFUND for supporting the family members they name. This has ONLY made it out in a couple of clips, but when most people find out about this scam...

It's just like the EBT cards they get, the free healthcare, etc. etc. Most people don't realize the true cost of these people on our society.

She finally got the point that "Oh, so they keep our wages lower"... EXACTLY.

Now, she is no convert. But the dam has a chip in it.

The last one says it all.
He was the hunted and now he is the hunter. YES!
Great bunch!

Me dino me done popped everyone a point here.

Me dino would be called some kind of homo something for my solution for biological male tyrannies who are mediocre losers at male sports.
Don't ruin female sports! Dress up like girlies and play against each other and leave them real women alone.
By playing each other some of you woo-woos can actually win.
Oh, well. New sad thought comes to me dino now~~~
1. Doubt even gays would watch tranny sports.
2. Also trannies would rather pick on girls so they can so selfishly be allowed by libtarded idiots to always cheat women to win.

Nice collection, OUC! Thank you, again, for your efforts in the Gulch!

OK, now I can't unsee this new definition of MAGA, LMAO!

Yes, it was supposed to be a warning, not a documentary.

According to my DNA testing, I'm part Scandinavian, too. Love pumpernickel!

we'll see

A lot of people are going to FAFO soon.

Maybe so Dino, maybe so . . .

Yep, the Dems are wannabe commies. They hate anyone who gets in the way of that treasonous goal.
Not to mention RINOs.