"Jared M. Spool" wrote:
> COBOL is a language which many users can be exceptionally productive
> without a fundemental understanding of many basic programming
> concepts (like functions, arrays, or inheretance). Therefore, the
> startup time is trivial.
Interesting. I wonder if that explains the otherwise bemusing
fact that the first language I was taught on my Computing Science
conversion Masters (it was a second degree for people who had a
first degree in other subjects) in 1985 was Cobol. I think the
language order learnt in the 18 months was:
Cobol
Fortran
Pascal
Assembler
DBASE III (self-taught on 6-month industrial placement)
Prolog (in a chosen option)
Wasn't Pascal developed specifically as a teaching language?
Have there been other languages created for that since
then?
Paola
