25 Oct
2008
25 Oct
'08
3:14 a.m.
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 06:15:31PM -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
I have been learning and using COBOL since the mid 80's. I use COBOL at the present time for Web Programming also. The COBOL we use runs on UNIX and Linux. I use it in addition to PHP/MySQL for Web Programming.
I have looked at Fortran programs but never had to learn the language. It is on a PDP 11 that we shutdown in the late 90's.
PDP-11... now there was a nice machine! That's where I first learned Assembly language--and I definitely was spoiled by that. Now when I look at assembler for, e.g. 80x86 machines I want to throw up. Nothing has been anything as nice to program in since with the possible exception of the 68000 family which had a lot of similarities.
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