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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
Thanks for the info. My weakness in understanding the stuff showed.
In college, I had to take a language called COBOL. The math and science majors had to take FORTRAN (I'm putting a date on myself, here, I know).
I actually made an "A" in COBOL, but I had to work to get it, and didn't enjoy it.
To further put a date on myself, we had to use key punch machines to punch a card for every line of code.
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I learnt Fortran at Uni, joined an oil company who discovered this with glee and a little later they had a rush rush project to have a system that reported on every capital item the company had world wide so they sent to learn Cobol. I thus ended up the only programmer who knew both languages and advised on how to interface them. I then got a overnight run down from six hours to forty minutes and became a performance consultant.