what's ya crust?

Fr45h3R · January 03, 2013, 09:16:24 PM

QuoteComputer programmer.

What language ? I'd love to get more into object oriented programming, but really enjoy cobol because it is so easy!

Mister T · January 03, 2013, 09:46:23 PM

C/C++ and Python at the moment. The last job was all Java.

Are you using COBOL for legacy reasons? I got the impression it didn't have widespread use these days (at least beyond systems written decades ago).

Graham · January 04, 2013, 12:32:03 PM

Quote from: 'interest' pid='5434' dateline='1356869146'I now work at Bunnings.

My wife practically owns shares it that joint!
It's her home away from home.
Always finding me things to do with the things that she buys:dodgy::dodgy:

I'm a public servant. Been doing it for nearly 40 years.

markn · January 04, 2013, 12:50:21 PM

Quote from: 'Mister T' pid='5662' dateline='1357209448'Computer programmer.

Do you work for yourself or do you have a real job? You do any web programming (.NET or php or javascript?).

markn · January 04, 2013, 12:54:11 PM

Quote from: 'Graham' pid='5695' dateline='1357264923'
Quote from: 'interest' pid='5434' dateline='1356869146'I now work at Bunnings.
My wife practically owns shares it that joint!
It's her home away from home.
Always finding me things to do with the things that she buys:dodgy::dodgy:

I'm a public servant. Been doing it for nearly 40 years.

Today one of the staff at our local Bunnings tried to charge me rent for the spot I was standing on because I've been spending so much time in the wood screw / nuts and bolts aisle over the last week.

purplepennyhunter · January 04, 2013, 12:57:47 PM

Quote from: 'markn' pid='5700' dateline='1357266251'
Quote from: 'Graham' pid='5695' dateline='1357264923'
Quote from: 'interest' pid='5434' dateline='1356869146'I now work at Bunnings.
My wife practically owns shares it that joint!
It's her home away from home.
Always finding me things to do with the things that she buys:dodgy::dodgy:
I'm a public servant. Been doing it for nearly 40 years.

Today one of the staff at our local Bunnings tried to charge me rent for the spot I was standing on because I've been spending so much time in the wood screw / nuts and bolts aisle over the last week.

They did not, you just like it there because of the industrial air conditioner (top of 44 deg today -the air con and the solar panels are fighting it out!)

markn · January 04, 2013, 12:59:20 PM

Quote from: 'purplepennyhunter' pid='5701' dateline='1357266467'They did not, you just like it there because of the industrial air conditioner (top of 44 deg today -the air con and the solar panels are fighting it out!)

They did so. At one point I'd been standing still so long a staff member put witches hats around me so the floor sweeper wouldn't run me over.

ausjack · January 04, 2013, 01:20:48 PM

:@ WHAT WHAT WHAT..your bunning has air con, bloody hell ya lucky if they put a fan on at the one here and there aint no air con so ya :heat: like a pig and just want to get out. But it could be worse PP he could be stuck at the pub :drinks:

Fr45h3R · January 04, 2013, 05:09:40 PM

Quote from: 'Mister T' pid='5671' dateline='1357211783'C/C++ and Python at the moment. The last job was all Java.

Are you using COBOL for legacy reasons? I got the impression it didn't have widespread use these days (at least beyond systems written decades ago).

Pretty much.
It is still very widely used and probably accounts for a lot of code still running production across the world, and to me it best suits the processing it is used for in our shop.
In any case my opinion is that the quality of applications does not rely on what code its written in, mostly because good coders cost too much!

I recall reading something along the lines of this once :
Obsolete computer hardware sits in a musuem
Obsolete computer software runs production

-rob

Mister T · January 04, 2013, 07:10:52 PM

Quote from: 'markn' pid='5698' dateline='1357266021'Do you work for yourself or do you have a real job? You do any web programming (.NET or php or javascript?).

I have a real job.
I've never done any web stuff for work but I have learnt it. Never done any .NET though.

Quote from: 'Fr45h3R' pid='5714' dateline='1357281580'Pretty much.
It is still very widely used and probably accounts for a lot of code still running production across the world, and to me it best suits the processing it is used for in our shop.
In any case my opinion is that the quality of applications does not rely on what code its written in, mostly because good coders cost too much!

I recall reading something along the lines of this once :
Obsolete computer hardware sits in a musuem
Obsolete computer software runs production

-rob

Yeah I thought so. Someone said to me once a lot of bank back-end stuff was in COBOL because that's what it had always been.
I guess it's not quite obsolete if it works.

ChrisM · January 06, 2013, 06:47:17 PM

I am a Nurse and I also own my own Medical/First Aid company that specialising in providing highly qualified medics to the Motorsport Community

b_j_w_79 · January 06, 2013, 10:07:12 PM

I'm currently a chemistry laboratory technician at Monash University. I also have a PhD in soil science.

Jaseee · January 08, 2013, 09:05:29 AM

I work in a blast furnace

interest · January 08, 2013, 01:00:10 PM

Quote from: 'Jaseee' pid='5924' dateline='1357598129'I work in a blast furnace

That could be anywhere today.

ausjack · January 08, 2013, 01:16:48 PM

:heat: Yeah I live in one and it's called Grafton :mocking:

But it's good to see that we come from all over the place and do a wide range of things :good: