Thank you for the reminder. Looked and didn't see anything obvious about needing to excerpt from the beginning, so will excerpt "good parts" in the future. Thanks.
I, too programmed COBOL in 1967. It did have some advantages. Was on one of the
4 language designs for DoD-I that became Ada. Unfortunately, we came in 2nd and a French company won the Legion of Honor for designing the American defense language.
The three Moderator's links (found below that link I provided) are the most informative.
I've moved beyond Java and am now working in the Cloud... :-)
