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Something I dont get with all these different versions of Linux
voidmain:
Well, I've got the wife and the kids and they are one of the reasons I passed up a teaching job that would have required me to move to Mississippi. I would have been teaching basic programming (PDL, Flow Charts, Software Life Cycle, documents etc), as well as ASM, C, ADA, FORTRAN and COBOL. Now this was about 6 years ago, I certainly hope COBOL is not still on their list!
Bazoukas:
ohhhhh you would be suprised about Cobol.
they still do teach it :(
Students are avoiding it like the plague though.
And from what i can tell the only companies running on Cobol are old companies or/and companies that are cheap like hell and they have machinery from the early 70's. Like the company I used to work at.
voidmain:
Yeah we still had COBOL floating around on our mainframes at the last two places I worked, although a lot of it got wiped out during the big Y2K risk analysis. I'm sure some companies are still writing COBOL but there can't be many.
Bazoukas:
Three languages that never moved my interest is Cobol, Visual Basic and HTML (Fotran though I do wanna learn.)
Mainly because its not as trim as c++ is.
I did some VB, passing values to variables or doing functions, damn, it was like writing a 5 page journal. And HTML looks even worst even though it takes few hours to learn.
I will pick HTML at the same time when am learning PHP.
voidmain:
I really haven't done a lot of "compiled" programming lately. I enjoy scripting and web programming more than anything (shell, Perl, PHP, HTML, etc) as I have been more into administration than application programming over the last several years.
VB is the devil. I've done a bit of VB programming and it has to be the worst language ever. Maybe the biggest reason I hate it is it locks you in to Windows. HTML/PHP/Perl really are fun. I don't know how anyone could not like them, instant gratification. But of course you'll want to combine them with SQL and tie into databases which maximizes satisfaction by being dynamic.
Most apps I write today I prefer to be web based if at all possible so they can be accessed from anywhere by any OS/browser. Standalone applications for me just are not fun. Too much like work (I was an applications programming team leader for a few years).
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