First computer language

[Derek Broughton]

Tony Arnold wrote:

> Ah! Those were the days. My undergraduate days of Computer Science were
> spent filling in coding forms or punching cards directly. It was really
> great when the operators dropped your cards and they got muddled up
> Those sequence numbers were essential!
...
> I agree with the above about once you've learnt a couple of languages
> you can write in anything (with the caveat about OO progs), however, I
> would include COBOL in the exceptions to this principle! I say this
> because as an undergraduate I learnt a number of languages and did very
> well with all of them, except COBOL. 

But Tony, you go back to the punch card days - COBOL was a very different
language then to the ANSI-85 and later versions.  Now that it's all free
format and has all the expected looping constructs it's a sort of very
verbose C :-)
-- 
derek