>Brenda, you might be heartened to know that I had 3 semesters of COBOL in college (I graduated in December 96). We edited, linked and compiled in VAX COBOL 85, but once got to sit in on a seminar where they were using OBJECT COBOL!!! Talk about rearranging the chairs on the Titanic...

Three semesters??? And you lived?:-) It would've killed me for sure.