in reply to COBOL vs. Perl

It's quite scary that demand for COBOL programmers is still pretty high...

Perhaps twenty years from now, when we shall be able to tell our computers in natural language what we want from them, they'll still be using some sort of COBOL...

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RE: RE: COBOL vs. Perl
by orkysoft (Friar) on Jun 29, 2000 at 19:10 UTC

    000100*I've had a COBOL course too, though luckily I never actually had to use it.
    000200*(Shh! Don't tell 'em I skipped the homework ;-)
    000300 ADD A TO B GIVING C.
    000400*;-)