On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>
> Tony has been lurking for some time on the list :)  He was my original
> mentor at UTC, designed the student database (IMAGE) from scratch, and
> formulated the original SPL-supplied COBOL interface we incorporated for
> terminal input and database calls.  They later evolved, at least the
> COBOL database bits, into macro supported expansions of straightforward
> database calls.
>
> Tony was miles ahead... very forward thinking.  It was a design that
> lasted the 36-year history of our system (with some additions, but the
> core remained).  I owe my career to him... pointing me in the right
> direction at the right times.  We did the SPL bits that made the COBOL
> possible (pre-VIEW/VPLUS, as we could not afford the terminals).  We had
> constructs in the terminal I/O like....
>

Ditto regarding Tony as well!         - d

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