/dev/null Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 https://www.zdnet.com/article/cobol-turns-60-why-it-will-outlive-us-all/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 I’ve always been more of a FORTRAN man myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 (edited) Basic, it told me where the errors where, didn’t have to wait two hours for a 1 or 0 Edited September 8, 2019 by row_33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Joshin' Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 5 hours ago, SlimShady'sGhost said: I’ve always been more of a FORTRAN man myself Took both COBOL and FORTRAN in collrge, preferred FORTRAN. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
\GoBillsInDallas/ Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 7 hours ago, Just Joshin' said: Took both COBOL and FORTRAN in college, preferred FORTRAN. So basically, in college you went both ways. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBill Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 8 hours ago, Just Joshin' said: Took both COBOL and FORTRAN in collrge, preferred FORTRAN. 27 minutes ago, \GoBillsInDallas/ said: So basically, in college you went both ways. Sounds like he was quite binary in college. In those days it was hard to be open about it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 1 hour ago, \GoBillsInDallas/ said: So BASICally, in college you went both ways. FIFY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray Beard Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 I never used COBOL, but I programmed for engineering, not business. Basic, FORTRAN, C, C++ (a little). For the past ~ten years, MATLAB has dominated. Python for open source. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LabattBlue Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 When i attended ECC in the 70's for what was then an Associates in "Data Processing", I am pretty sure the programming languages in the curriculum were... Cobol RPG Fortran Assembler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 the labs had us commerce students with BASIC programming and the science and engineering students (COBOL/FORTRAN/WHATEVER) BASIC would tell us the lines with errors and we'd fix them and get it done in 15 minutes flat the others would sit there for hours waiting for the 1 or 0 result and then there'd be great roars of triumph or the F word louder than a 747 quite entertaining to be there for those moments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punching Bag Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 APL was my first computer language, I'd say it was Greek to me but you would misunderstand. Took FORTRAN in college as well as other languages. Never took a class for COBOL but had jobs where I needed to debug it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray Beard Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 (edited) 13 minutes ago, Limeaid said: APL was my first computer language, I'd say it was Greek to me but you would misunderstand. Took FORTRAN in college as well as other languages. Never took a class for COBOL but had jobs where I needed to debug it. I learned APL as part of a linear algebra class. It was a one semester novelty. Only a few computers in the computer lab had the special APL keyboard, which occasionally caused some added stress if none of the special keyboards were available. APL used special symbols for vector and matrix functions about 30 years before MATLAB came along with similar intrinsic functions. APL = A Programming Language. Edited September 9, 2019 by Gray Beard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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