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SWBTATTReg

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4. Cobol 1 or II? Or both? Opps...

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 5, 2022, 07:52 PM

Feb 2022

Cobol II was the rewrite IBM put out for Cobol I. It was a pain in the blank, we had to rewrite a lot of older cobol programs to be compatible w/ the new vers. of cobol. That didn't happen until the mid-1980s at minimum. Sorry about the confusion. Perhaps you have a future job in coding?

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Looks like some of us old computer timers (programmers, system developers, etc.) [View all] SWBTATTReg Feb 2022 OP

how hard is it to learn cobol Blues Heron Feb 2022 #1

Yeah, I agree, I used to teach COBOL, PL/1, and it was a class approximately 18 weeks long, SWBTATTReg Feb 2022 #3

Perl was my last language, used it and javascript, some UNix things like Berkeley DB Blues Heron Feb 2022 #5

Not that hard, depending... quixotic1 Feb 2022 #6

I learned COBOL back in 1971. sinkingfeeling Feb 2022 #2

Cobol 1 or II? Or both? Opps... SWBTATTReg Feb 2022 #4

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