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Old 26th June 2008
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Who on earth would want to learn COBOL?


Unless you got paid by the line.
Back then (1960's) Basic and C did not exist.

If one wanted to work as a programmer the languages to learn were algol, assembler, cobol and fortran.

Even today most mainframes have some cobol programs running on them.
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