>>Same here. I liked it when I took it at school but dBASE was easier to get into than COBOL. I think it is Fujitsu that has kept COBOL alive and put it into CLR.
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>This is the same Fujitsu that just announced it was quitting the mainframe business entirely due to financial losses? :-)

Well, they probably make more money converting people from mainframes to their COBOL on the PC. They were one of the sponsors of MSFT's DevDays.