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- From: remilld@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jason Remillard)
- Subject: Re: Cobol for the Amiga?
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- Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 01:28:03 GMT
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- In <paulk.2oqo@terapin.com> paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz) writes:
-
- >> to answer everyones question, a good reason why we need one is
- >> because all those Ami users that are in college going through the
- >> computer science program most likely have to take Cobol at one time
- >> or another as part of their curiculum.
- >
- >I never had to, and I went to a cheap school that was real heavy on
- >that sort of thing.
- >
- >But think of something else: so many programmers refuse to touch
- >COBOL nowadays that the few who are willing to really get into it
- >get LARGE money for maintaining those old programs.
-
- Sorry, but have you checked out the *.*.*.jobs groups lately..
-
-
- They are laden with Cobol, esp. HP, positions..
-
- I know, I really hate COBOL. In my *COLLEGE* course, I have to write
- almost 10 programs with an average of 600 lines. SYstem calls, forms
- and the like.. But, Cobol 85 is *much* better than System 360 Assembler.
- We started cobol just when I started liking the 20 year assembler.. (ARGH!!
- Is that possible).
-
- Anyways, unfortunately there are alot of companies out there who have
- old apps in Cobol and *will* pay big bucks for programmer/maintainers..
-
-
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