Always know your objective first.

Yesterday I happened to come across this forward mail which I thot of placing in my blogspot. The content in it made me think. It actually made me realize what flaw I was making most of the time which used to land me in trouble. Not only me this is a common mistake most of us do.
Ill place a copy of it :

During a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the Director, "what is the criteria that defines a patient to be institutionalized? " "Well," said the Director, "we fill up a bathtub, we offer a teaspoon, a teacup, and a bucket to the patient and ask the patient to empty the bathtub."
1. Would you use the spoon?
2. Would you use the teacup?
3. Would you use the bucket?
Oh, I understand," said the visitor. "A normal person would choose the bucket as it is larger than the spoon." No," answered the Director. "A normal person would pull the drain plug." He flunked..... ..... There is a difference between an objective and actions! Unless you understand your objective, you will be wasting your time in your actions.

Always know your objective first.

Cheers!!!
Rajendra

Good morning

Actually I dont like to give free suggestions. Stop..dont come to a conclusion that i am going to give one.But in my life, I am encountering many situations these days in either ways, Good and bad. Thank God, good is dominating bad most of the time.
Then I happened to see the below statements which are worth reading.
" Everything in life is temporary.Darkness of the night or brightness of the day.Even sunrise is temporary....and so is sunset. If things are going good enjoy it...It wont last forever.And if things are going bad Dont worry coz it wont last forever either.Everything just passes by.."

Difference between natural and cobol

This is my first blog and this is related to the technology which I am working on- Mainframes. Hmmmmmm.
The mainframe skillset which I am currently working on is Natural/Adabas.
I ll concentrate on Difference between Cobol and Natural.
Lets start with Hierarchy of programming languages.
v 1GL: Machine language
v 2GL: Assembly language
v 3GL :High Level language
v 4GL: Very High Level language
v 5GL: Very very High Level language (Artificial Intelligence)
Before actually getting into the differences between Cobol and Natuaral, I ll start with difference between Third and Fourth generation languages.
Third generation languages :
· High level languages are Third generation languages.
· Instructions that use brief statements or arithmetic expressions.
· Macro instructions: Each statements generates several machine instructions when translated by compilers or interpreters.
· They are easier to learn than assembler.
· Machine independent but less efficient.
Fourth generation languages
· 4GLs: A variety of programming languages that are non procedural.
· Non procedural-users specify the results they want, while the computers determines the sequence of instructions that will accomplish those results.
· Natural language that is very close to English or other human language often represents a 4GL.

COBOL is a third generation language. Whereas Natural is a Fourth generation language.
The differences which I ve spotted are here we go

v PRODUCT.
v PERFORMANCE ISSUES.
v COMPILER AND INTERPRETER.
v READABILITY.
v BUILT- IN FUNCTIONS.
v LINES OF CODE
v TIME CONSUMING TO DEBUG
v INDENTATION
v DEBUGGING OPTION
v PROGRAM CREATION
v COMPILATION.
v UNDERSTANDABILITY.
v DATA SET SECURITY & Memory utilization (usage of comp variables)
v USAGE OF SUPER DESCRIPTOR
v MAP CREATION

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