On 7 May 2010 at 15:08, Fred Cisin wrote:
I taught beginning FORTRAN in the 1980s at Merritt
College (community
college), and would not mind doing it again, if we could get a quorum
for the classes. COBOL is gone from our curriculum :-( RPG is gone
from our curriculum :-) FORTRAN is gone from our curriculum :-( APL is
gone from our curriculum :-( BASIC is gone from our curriculum :-( The
administration has cancelled C The administration has cancelled C# The
administration has cancelled ASM We are down to "Using Microsoft
Office", "VISUAL BASIC", and C++ (slated for cancellation soon)
I wonder if it's possible to find a copy of Valtrep for the IBM 709.
I think it was all downhill after PL/I.
--Chuck