>I went to the University of Montreal 10 years ago. Do you know wich langage I learned there? Ada, Pascal, C, Assembler, COBOL and FORTRAN. I liked the first one, but nobody use this. The next two may be usefull, but outdated (now Delphi and C++). I wouldn't work on the last three even if they doubled my salary!

These were the languages taught 3 years ago, too. Plus dBase.

Actually, C is still used in many places (especially on Unix). IMHO, both COBOL and Fortran were very powerful at their time. Both were very simple and the results were great. I wrote very complicate programs in COBOL for a clone of IBM-360 with 70K of memory (but we could use only 3-4KB for our programs!!) and they worked great. I am sad to say that the same programs would require MB of memory today and powerful Pentium CPUs.

Vlad