On Mon, April 30, 2012 19:40, Scott Silva wrote:

on 4/27/2012 8:04 AM m.roth@5-cent.us spake the

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It really is past time to migrate to another language, y'know. You could probably move it to something like perl fairly easily, or even *bleah* java.

    mark

Just think how much money you could earn at Y3K!!! <<DUCKS>> ;)

A former IBM programmer analyst who had invested heavily in the dot com bubble and who had realized his millions before the collapse fell deathly ill. Faced with the inevitability of his imminent death he decided to chance the untried technology of cryonics to evade death until a cure be found. Having gambled once and won, given the circumstance, he felt no compunction about doing so again, albeit this time with his life and not his life savings.

He awoke in a lighted chamber surrounded by people clothed in strange garb and accoutred even more strangely. Groggily he asked, "What date is it?" He felt, rather than heard, the reply, "9997 CE, or as you might know it, AD 9997." "It took that long to find a cure?" he asked. "No" came the reply. "Then why have you awakened me now?" he asked again. "It says here that you know COBOL." came the reply. . .