Timex wrote to nblade <=-
Good Luck learning Cobol. I haven't touch that since college. In
a wierd way, I wish I still had my textbooks on it. Hell I wish
I still had my old books on Pascal. I've been thinking about
relearning that just fun.
I'm sure you could find your old books on Usenet or used book shops. I
went on a nostalgia bent and picked up some of my old textbooks from my
CD days - K&Rs The C Programming Language, Algorithms by Sedgwick, the
first Donald Knuth book and Numerican Recipes in FORTRAN.
COBOL would be a nice skill to have in your back pocket for a side
hustle, I'm sure a lot of government code is running in COBOL (or
RPG/4).
Heck, seeing virtual AS/400s and other IBM midrange systems, it might
be a rabbit hole to create an entire vintage computing environment to
practice on!
... Mars is closer to the Earth than Texas is to Maine.
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