>>You folks are cracking me up with this COBOL stuff. I cut my teeth on COBOL and did it on VAXes for years while teaching myself dBase, Clipper, Fox and now VFP.
>>COBOL is not going to go away anytime soon. Hell, my wife is a mainframe programmer for the IRS and she'll undoubtedly make her career doing COBOL for them for the next 25 years until she retires.
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>>With all the talk about whether VFP is going to be around or not, maybe everyone ought to give some thought to teaching yourselves COBOL....hehehehehe.
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>>Steve Despres
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>We'd definitely make more money! Speaking of which, are you reverting? (s)
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>I guess COBOLers will get the last laugh! (eg)
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>Tom

Naahhh, I'm not reverting....but I suppose if the right contract came along at the right price I'm sure that I could manage to devote some of my efforts to it.
I did COBOL 85 on VAXes from 1986 until 1994 when I moved to FoxPro and Lotus Notes. Haven't touched a VAX or COBOL since but I think that I could manage. I still remember English fairly well.....hehehehehehe.

Steve