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Blues Heron

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1. how hard is it to learn cobol

Reply to SWBTATTReg (Original post)

Sat Feb 5, 2022, 06:40 PM

Feb 2022

they speak of it like its some mystery language lost in the mists of time. Surely there are ways to teach it to young programmers. Its not exactly linear B

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Looks like some of us old computer timers (programmers, system developers, etc.) [View all] SWBTATTReg Feb 2022 OP

how hard is it to learn cobol Blues Heron Feb 2022 #1

Yeah, I agree, I used to teach COBOL, PL/1, and it was a class approximately 18 weeks long, SWBTATTReg Feb 2022 #3

Perl was my last language, used it and javascript, some UNix things like Berkeley DB Blues Heron Feb 2022 #5

Not that hard, depending... quixotic1 Feb 2022 #6

I learned COBOL back in 1971. sinkingfeeling Feb 2022 #2

Cobol 1 or II? Or both? Opps... SWBTATTReg Feb 2022 #4

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