Rich kids are into COBOL

----- Original Message ----- From: "Roe Peterson" <roeapeterson at gmail.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 1:54 PM Subject: Re: Rich kids are into COBOL I wouldn't wish a COBOL career on my worst enemy. What a god-awful mess. And yes, I know how and why it came to be. And all about legacy code bases and the high cost of migration. I was forced to take cobol back in 1978, never attended a lecture, handed in all the assignments, wrote the final, passed the course, and promptly forgot the whole thing. Still, what a god-awful mess :-) ----- Reply ----- Good thing Grace Hopper isn't around to read that... I actually kinda liked COBOL; a lot of it was just boilerplate after all... m