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Samstag:
I do most of my work in FORTRAN. I didn't learn it in college, because way back then FORTRAN was considered obsolete.
ErikRuud:
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--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on February 26, 2008, 12:33:35 pm ---Does anyone actually use what they learned in college?
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Languages, nope ... FORTRAN, COBOL, DTRAN, Pascal, PL/1, APL, J.
Woof -- I am getting old.
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Wow, forgot about Pascal. I had that for the //c 1988-ish.
Chad: I'll see your TI and raise you a VIC-20. Third grade sounds about right.
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And I'll see your VIC-20 and raise you a Commodore PET! It was 1981 and I was in 11th grade.
I taught myself BASIC during high school.
In college I learned COBOL, Pascal, and C.
Professionally I have used COBOL(with CICS), Java, Java Script, Korn Shell scripts, and SQL for DB2/UDB. Most of my current work is done using "Business Intelligence" tools. (Informatica and Hyperion).
ChadTower:
Informatica is a pain in ---my bottom---. I cannot stand platforms that require you use an internal source control mechanism. Makes corporate platform management a serious chore from a configuration management perspective. I go all Lewis Black whenever a new Informatica project pops up around here.
I started to learn TI Basic so I could make the speech synthesizer say dirty things. That was hiliarious in third grade. Still is in that TI99 voice.
ErikRuud:
At least Informatica has version control.
Hyperion has none and as far as I know there is no good way to use external source control. You can have versions of an object, so you can rollback changes, but there is no check-in/check-out.
I remember having fun with SAM (Software Automatic Mouth) on my Commodore 64. The voice was pretty close to the TI99 voice. With the right settings you could get it to sound like a robot version of the Swedish Chef.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: ErikRuud on February 29, 2008, 10:26:51 am ---At least Informatica has version control.
Hyperion has none and as far as I know there is no good way to use external source control. You can have versions of an object, so you can rollback changes, but there is no check-in/check-out.
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I don't want a platform to have its own version control. That is your configuration management/release engineering team's responsibility. The dept should have a repository of record, almost always a formal source control application, that handles version control of all application artifacts across the board. When you have one or two rogue platforms actually requiring their own version control system is makes them nearly impossible to keep proper software lifecycle consistency on those platforms relative to everything else. Rogue platforms are bad hen we're talking lifecycle management across a whole slew of platforms.
AFAIK, Informatica does allow you to export artifacts for proper external storage, but it also requires you to use internal source control in order to import within its own environments. We have some Hyperion here but I can't remember the exact mechanics. In order to migrate an artifact from one environment to another, if there is no internal source control, it has to have an export/import ability. Is that how it works?
I apologize for going off a bit, this is something that makes my life harder on a regular basis. Platforms that force internal version control are a close first over platforms that do not provide reasonable command line interfaces for artifact management and common functions like service start/stop and platform bouncing. Frustratingly when a platform has one problem it usually has the other too.
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