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To: ShadowAce

One of the first programming languages I learned in college was COBOL. Remember, never forget your period.


3 posted on 12/31/2025 10:24:36 AM PST by ChuckHam
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To: ChuckHam
One of the first programming languages I learned in college was COBOL. Remember, never forget your period.

The first 10 years of my career was in COBOL.

8 posted on 12/31/2025 11:16:21 AM PST by ShadowAce
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Business majors learned COBOL. Engineers and scientists learned FORTRAN. That was the split in the 1960’s. I was on the FORTRAN side of the canyon (chemist).


36 posted on 01/01/2026 7:14:36 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (NRA Life Member)
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