>>>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...
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>>Three semesters??? And you lived?:-) It would've killed me for sure.
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>Well, actually 2 semesters where the subject matter was COBOL, and a third (Data Management and Retreival) where the assignments were building different data srutures using COBOL.

Oh, that's different then.:-) Actually, I went from Pascal to COBOL and back to Pascal. I don't think I ever recovered. < g>