First computer language

[Anthony Gardner]

First, you take a hammer and a chisel .....

That is tongue-in-cheek (sorry) ;) It was the first
language I learnt (appropriate for this discussion)
and  I remember having to write the code on graph
paper!!. I don't know if that was the teacher's
technique or how you write Cobol programs. 


--- Bjørn Ingmar Berg <bjorn.ingmar.berg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 23/08/05, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>
> wrote:
> > [...]  Almost all the financial services companies
> are still using it.
> > It's not hard to believe.  I was still working in
> Cobol five years ago.  My
> > wife was 3 years ago.  The people we worked with
> are still doing it...
> > --
> > derek
> 
> Interesting.  So how would you recommend going about
> to learn Cobol?
> And just to make sure; I genuinely want to know, I'm
> not tongue-in-cheek
> here.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Bjørn Ingmar Berg
> 
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