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In reply to the discussion: Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You. [View all]

lapfog_1

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2. yes, I used to teach COBOL in college... hated it
Reply to question everything (Original post)
Tue Sep 25, 2018, 09:06 PM
Sep 2018

and a few factual corrections...

COBOL was invented by a woman (co-inventor) named Dr. Jean Sammet. I wrote a paper (in high school) on her and her book "Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals" that compared "modern" (in 1973) computer languages...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/technology/obituary-jean-sammet-software-designer-cobol.html

Along with a number of other women such as Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, Jean pioneered the field of software.

You see, it was thought back in the 1950s and 1960s that hardware was the domain of male engineers and software was really more like operating an adding machine and therefore, the domain of "mere women". Hence the NASA women calculators (later software engineers) in Hidden Figures.

Anyway, I can write COBOL... but not willingly...

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Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You. [View all] question everything Sep 2018 OP
It's been years, but I have done Cobol programming. CentralMass Sep 2018 #1
yes, I used to teach COBOL in college... hated it lapfog_1 Sep 2018 #2
Interesting. My first courses in College involved using... tapes question everything Sep 2018 #3
paper tape... or punch cards on a "reel" of paper... (actually usually fanfold. lapfog_1 Sep 2018 #5
I took two semesters of COBOL in college in 1991-92 padfun Sep 2018 #4
actually it was intended to be as far away from Assembly as possible lapfog_1 Sep 2018 #7
Languages padfun Sep 2018 #10
There was a call for COBOL programmers back around Y2K TlalocW Sep 2018 #6
yes, it would be hard to have someone current with Python or something lapfog_1 Sep 2018 #8
Someday take a look at an IBM Z14. sinkingfeeling Sep 2018 #12
oh, and there is still another "Y2K" issue coming up lapfog_1 Sep 2018 #9
Yes, I do, but retired. My 48 year old son is a programmer, who sinkingfeeling Sep 2018 #11
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