Rich kids are into COBOL

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Roe Peterson <roeapeterson at gmail.com> wrote: I concur. In 1978 or so, when I was new to BASIC (and still in Jr High), my mother got me a book on COBOL (https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2093357W/Standard_COBOL) in the hopes, I think, of inspiring me on a career path. I'd written a few dozen working programs in BASIC and typed in many more at that point. What I read horrified me. How could anything be that mind-crushingly verbose? Pages and pages of form and very little function. Fortunately for me, long before college, I fell into paying work in microcomputers, then as I started college, minicomputers. I did take a FORTRAN course my first quarter at University (my one and only!) and I did learn FORTRAN before C, but I don't think I was irreparably damaged by my early efforts. -ethan