The emails...they're coming from inside the prison!

I think I'm going to go play some Tetris...

This is the same city that banned Happy Meals. They should just get the city to ban Google/Apple buses.

UPDATE PhoneList
SET KillPhoneIndicator = "Y"

Oops. Forgot the WHERE clause

I know what you mean. I'm working on an app that doesn't need much horsepower and would like it to be available on the iPad 1 so that people could put old ones they have laying around to good use. But Apple isn't making it easy to support older device so I'll probably have to make it iOS 7+ only. :-(

Never trust a programer who can spel.

Won't the poor be hit hardest by this?

The same way you did it before the metadata was available.

That's just it though -- business people don't read code! You're making the developers lives harder in order to cater to a situation that never happens.

Try writing the COBOL version over and over everyday and you'll get tired of it pretty quickly.

I agree that we should try to make things simple. But I also think that COBOL's verbosity gets in the way of that. For example, I find:

For i = 1 to 100
    ' Do work here
Next

to be simpler and easier to understand than

PERFORM VARYING WS-I FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL WS-I = 100
* DO WORK HERE
END PERFORM

You know why there aren't a lot of women in IT now, right? It's because after Grace Hopper unleashed COBOL, we're been leery about letting them in.

(It's a joke! Claim down.)

"It's a bit like BT in the UK, but without the customer dedication, commitment to upgrades or ethics, fairness, and sense of social responsibility of its management team"

So, it's like AT&T then.