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[Daniel Duffy]

Don't mean to digress on this thread.

Briefly, I worked on IBM zO/S COBOL, CICS GUI screens and IMS/DB for a bank out of college (2008). Maintaining or enhancing legacy code wasn't the easiest - COBOL is verbose. I don't think there were any numerical libraries.

As a fun trivia fact, I know that, the flight guidance software for the Apollo 11 moon mission was written in IBM assembly. But, much of the numerical linear algebra routines, I have read, were originally written in FORTRAN. I'm guessing, IBM just failed to adapt.

I am an 80s kid, so maybe @Daniel Duffy and @Dimitri Vulis, you'll would know more about it.

Fortran is the best language for numerics. Many Python libraries use it.
IBM adapted quite well. But I digress.

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
Mark Twain

 

[Daniel Duffy]

In fairness, IBM was quick off the mark with punch cards

 

[Daniel Duffy]

I never worked in cobol, but I taught a cobol class in the 1990s, to college kids who wanted to work on y2k remediation. I don't think normal pdf is intrinsic in cobol. Neither is any error function that could help calculate it it.

Brady bonds had partial U..S. government guarantees, so the option pricer was relatively complicated.

Once I saw a sealed silver box around 1992 containing COBOL source code for a swap system. It cost 1 million dollars. Very impressive.

 

[Quasar Chunawala]

In fairness, IBM was quick off the mark with punch cards

Funny guy! The 24×80 console we worked on is a leftover of the Hollerith punched cards era.

 

[Eric Jacquier]

Hollerith punched cards, you just triggered my PTSD, Hollerith punch cards, the Friday the 13th of coding.

 

[MLV]

The (legendary and awesome) GS banker bag is from

Banker Bag | There is only one original Wall Street Banker Bag | Warden Brooks

Wall Street Banker Bag by Warden Brooks - How exactly did the Wall Street banker bag achieve its iconic cult status? It has been a stable for interns, IB conferences, special events, elite clubs, associations, university reunions, corporate programs and incentive groups. You name it, the banker...

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Ha! The douchebag bag! Afraid to say I got one, as well as a couple of 'gonia vests - which, btw have been slowly replaced by Arc'teryx vests as an official component of the "Midtown uniform" (given what was previously mentioned on Patagonia not co-branding their products to financial firms).

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Hollerith punched cards, you just triggered my PTSD, Hollerith punch cards, the Friday the 13th of coding.

Don't tell me; the punch card fell on the floor?

 

[Dimitri Vulis]

Don't tell me; the punch card fell on the floor?

If the punch cards stay on the floor less than 5 seconds, not a problem.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Hollerith punched cards, you just triggered my PTSD, Hollerith punch cards, the Friday the 13th of coding.

Do Not Fold, Staple, Spindle or Mutilate​

 

[Andy Nguyen]

The swag we deserve.
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Pocket protector has its own interesting history

Rise and Fall of the Pocket Protector

Designed to keep shirts clean and tools handy, this ubiquitous invention declined into a social stigma but rebounded as a symbol of nerd pride

www.americanscientist.org

 

[TheCheshireCat]

Personally, I'd like a QN t-shirt or hoodie so I can wear it to university

PS: A water bottle would be nice too! (I don't really use stationary that much, like pens etc, since I just use my ipad and interactive pen)