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Hey Guys,

Since we're off topic now, I'd like to say I enjoy getting to know eachother a little better :!:

countryroads wrote:The 40s, 50s, and 60s are the best time of your life. The only reason that there is a concentration problem is there are more things going on in your life now than in your 20s.

Quitte right. To name one, my health hasn't been my biggest friend lately. I take it yours is still ok, considering the great amount of sports you're practicing?
I would like to quote back on you:

Enjoy the best time of your life.

and would like to add:

Make the best out of what is left of it.

Take care guys.
Fred

Hi Fred,

I don't know what your health concerns are, but my health has been a concern since the day I was born. I acquired epilepsy at birth and live on phenobarbitol. Rheumatoid Arthritis also runs in my family history. My cousin has early onset RA. I have the type that waits for you to be inactive. My 2 siblings were tall and thin and I was short and chunky. Plus I smoked.

My step son asked me why I smoked and I told him that I did not know but if I ever caught him smoking ...... I decided that day if the thought of his smoking got me that upset, I needed to quit. So no more smoking.

My last programming job was in a city 40 miles from where I live. An hour drive to work, 8 to 12 hours sitting at the keyboard programming, an hour drive home, and then eat and get some sleep was the only activity that I was getting. My RA attacked me full force and I could not use my hands to open or close much of anything. That is when I joined the gym. I went there just to get some flexibility and then I picked up a set of weights. The pain in my hands went away while I was gripping the weights. So I started weight lifting. It stopped the RA along with my having to go out and buy an entire set of new clothes. I am now the thin sibling and my 2 siblings are overweight.

There is only one problem with computer programming. We sit at a desk with our eyes looking at a screen and pressing the keys on the keyboard. If you do that for too many years, you stretch one day and throw a vertabrae out in your kneck. The chiropractor can only do so much. When I started rock climbing, you would not believe the healthy stretch that I felt in my spine. I have since found out that a lot of hospitals have put in climbing walls due to climbing's health benefits. Riding a true road bicycle is also helpful for the spine as you stretch out over the diamond frame while holding onto the drop handle bars.

Enough about my issues. I hope your health concerns are not of the type that keep you from being active.

Marty

Hey Marty,

If no-one has tapped your shoulder for your achievements before, than please accept mine

I too try to keep as active as I can.
I got an auto-immune disease some 8 years ago, which slowely but surely 'eat' my muscles.
But moreoever its also effecting my lungs, resulting in lungfibrosis (and I never smoked!)
I kinda recognize your RA descriptions in a way that I more or less experience the same, but the lungfibrosis is 'killing' me.
I cannot even reach my car normally lately which is less than 100 metres away.
I do hope to get back to the point before my last setback 1,5 month ago, so that I can again get some fysiosports.
Not that it looks close to what you are doing, but I'm happy with it. And I agree that any moving/sports are necessary and good for the spirit.
It certainly kept me morally going!

Enough whining from me.

Let's enjoy life again and count our blessings :!:

All the best to you.
Fred

Hi Fred,

Thank you for the tap on my shoulder.

But you are the one who needs a big pat on the back for your positive attitude.

I hope that positive attitude gets you back to your fysiosports soon.

Marty

Hi Reinhart,

The course studies at the branch college in my area do not give any classes on cobol.net . They also have a lot of prerequisites that you need to take for any programming class. So I have been taking all of my classes online. I do this mostly during the winter as all we can do is shovel snow or take classes. Summer is filled with mowing the lawn and staying active.

I have googled today on cobol.net and have found a lot of sites. What I need to know is what compiler, how much core, what price and so on?

I hope you can help me out.

Marty

countryroads wrote:Hi Reinhart,

The course studies at the branch college in my area do not give any classes on cobol.net . They also have a lot of prerequisites that you need to take for any programming class. So I have been taking all of my classes online. I do this mostly during the winter as all we can do is shovel snow or take classes. Summer is filled with mowing the lawn and staying active.

I have googled today on cobol.net and have found a lot of sites. What I need to know is what compiler, how much core, what price and so on?

I hope you can help me out.

Marty

Hi Marty!

i really would like to help you out to find some course for the winter but to be honest: i never was interested programming cobol at home.
So i took what my company provided: we have tools from Microfocus who also provide the integration to Visual-Studio from Microsoft. Maybe you can find something at the Developer-Section at Microfocus?

They also offer "Visual Cobol" - cobol-development integrated in Visual Studio. You can find some info here. Costs? I don't know. But there's a trial version available.

As an IDE you can use VisualStudio from Microsoft. There's a free version of available called "VisualStudio Express" (downloadable from Microsoft - look here). You can do all necessary things with it a programmer has to do.

I'm sorry i can't help you more