Posted by Steve on 01/08/08 04:22

"Gary L. Burnore" <gburnore@databasix.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 21:18:41 -0600, "Steve" <no.one@example.com> wrote:
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>
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>>as for 'the job', one of my first IT jobs was as a system's admin of a
>>call
>>center. we used sco unix and ran an outdated user front-end that resembled
>>a
>>dos screen. i programmed the branching logic for the prompts the user
>>would
>>read.
>
> Ah yes, the old smc cobol call tree. I remember that stuff on SCO.

well, our stuff wasn't quite *that* old. :^)

the language was less cobol and more like bash. it still sucked ass compared
to what's out there today.

> If call victim answers first question with A, do Ask N next.

right...but those were the easy branches. we had to contrive loops and parse
comments and all kinds of crap. good experience. hated doing it though.

> Hahaha. We may actually know each other and not know it. :)

possibly! i didn't get out much. i was there most of the time keeping the
damn place physically running. the best thing about that job experience is
that i understood the architecture that drove the conditional branching.
from that, i've made several manufacturing routing systems (controlling the
build-up of a product through workstations...and telling whether they
should/not be there or what the next step was)...i even recently signed a
contract to build a customer survey system for an automotive manufacturer -
of which i'm sure you've heard. still, that job blew like a stiff breeze in
alaska in january!

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