Ed,

That's an excellent suggestion ...

Scott ford
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Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll 
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On Feb 16, 2013, at 7:41 PM, Ed Gould <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Feb 16, 2013, at 2:15 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
>> -------------------SNIP--------------------------------------------------
>> The culture of most COBOL shops is so complacent that disruptive
>> technology is very hard to teach in them.  It is not, I am sure,
>> impossible; but it is almost certainly uneconomic.
>> .
> 
> John (and Steve),
> 
> I suspect COBOL programmers want to lean how to basically code COBOL programs 
> and how to debug them PERIOD.
> 
> I would suggest that any advanced facilities be taught in a separate class 
> only for programmers that want to be adventerous.
> 
> COBOL programmers are under the gun to be (if you must) work horses and 
> nothing else.
> 
> Ed
> 
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