Oh hell no!

I spent 14 years keeping the State of Texas from knowing how much COBOL I actually knew (grin)


>I hope you aren't going to say you have fond memories of the DATA DIVISION <g>.
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>>When I was at the University of Houston, I remember that the 'next big thing' was going to be Ada. "Fortran is dead!" echoing all over NASA. Then they finally got enough code written in Ada to run benchmarks and Fortran beat it hands down.
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>>I think that what people forget is that these languages (COBOL and Fortran in particular) do what they were designed to do VERY well, better than most of the languages that were supposed to 'kill' them.
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>>But, then again, they weren't bought up by a company who's sole reason for purchasing them was to gut them and use the viscera for their own 'languages' as Microsloth bought Fox. Anyone else remember Access 1.0? I do, and I always have to scrape my tongue to get that foul taste out of my mouth.
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>>>The military runs a lot of Fortran, Cobol, VB, C, Pascal, Foxpro, Ada, et al...
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>>>>>>Yeah.....that would explain COBOL, FORTRAN, and Assembler
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>>>>>I bet you can't find a handful of each other than cobol and that's because of the huge business investment in it. Nobody teaches or uses assembler to day becuse of 4gl languages unless you a bit tweaking at the core..
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>>>>ummmm....last time I checked, and it has been awhile, but the military still runs tons of FORTRAN, so do a lot of geological companies.