Wow, was this on-the-job or was it at school, POD? I didn't think anyone was actually teaching FORTRAN and COBOL by the late 80s.I learned FORTRAN and COBOL in the late 1980's, pretty much forgotten it all since, along with BASIC and C++
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College (The Camborne School of Mines) for FORTRAN and learnt COBOL on a computer training course a few years later. I think the idea in both cases was that although they were old languages, there was a lot of commonly used software written in them, that would continue to be used long into the future, so training people in them was probably worthwhile
As I posted above, I taught COBOL at a college until a few years after Y2K. As PoD said, lots of "legacy" systems still using it at the time, and for several years after. I had a lot of students get their first job via COBOL.
I also taught BASIC, but never FORTRAN.
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I think the bigger danger is that people think it means that there are no crocodiles swimming there so it's safe to swim. I love signs like that where it seemed like a good idea and no one ever considered that it might be taken a different way. I also love that you read it a different way than the two ways I did.
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Punctuation is very important. Especially on warning signs.... jeeze!!
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The unintended meaning is hilarious but was it not getting emptied when full? Was it getting emptied when only half full? Did that artful sign solve whatever the problem was? I need more information!
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Wouldn’t that be “full when empty?”
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But it's in English. Thought Crocs spoke Crocodilian.
English with a Crocodilian accent is very distinctive. Kind of like Mandarin Chinese spoken with a brogue.
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My GF's name is Xiaobing Burke and you should hear her say "haggis".English with a Crocodilian accent is very distinctive. Kind of like Mandarin Chinese spoken with a brogue.
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