People seem to identify as "modern" what they learned at University.
I didn't attend a University, at the time it was a Polytechnic. We learned Fortran on an ICL machine (no idea what model). I thought programming was not for me based on what we were taught, rather for the next man. Reminds me of the line in the Goons: Bloodnot : " I'm saner than the next man! " Eccles: "Little does he know, I'm the next man." A couple of years later I was poring over the IBM Orientation manuals, gazing out of the window thinking "what have I done". On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 7:44 AM Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > Funny, isn’t it? > > COBOL (née 1959) is 61 years old. It’s a very old language. > > C (née 1972) is 48 years old. It’s a modern language. > > Charles > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Rob Schramm > Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2020 1:56 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Cobol > > So age-ist to comment on C's age. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
