>>>>Oddly, my 16 yr old grandson is learning wed development in High School and they are teaching with Front Page.
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>>>As late as 1993, the kids in some high schools around here, were, as part of the "knowing computers" curriculum, learning Cobol.
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>>People still use Cobol though - as matter of fact there is more lines of Cobol in production than any other language
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>My guess is as of right now, there are probably more lines of JavaScript on the web than ever written in Cobol.
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>>- thus there is a market for it and I guess even today a Cobol programmer has a marketable skill. FrontPage though? That's ..ummm...a stupid thing to bother learning now (if it wasn't ever stupid to begin with - which is questionable).
Mike - there might be more functions. but I don't know about lines.
Someone once estimated that it took 50 lines of COBOL, when all the divisions were considered, to accomplish what one line of dBase could do.
Anyone who does not go overboard- deserves to.
Malcolm Forbes, Sr.