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. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "For him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy--to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen." ----------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 (niv) ----------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20081024/b12ed8ab/attachment-0004.sig>