On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Mike Connors wrote:

> Are there many novice devs at these events? I was a Comp Sci major once
> upon a time, a time of Assembler, Basic, Pascal, and Fortran. But those
> dinosaurs are extinct now in the modern world of object oriented and
> interpreted langs...

   I know of a small company doing spatial analyses and all their code is in
FORTRAN. If you want to be modern, you can probably learn Object COBOL, or
use one of Microsoft's "visual" languages. :-)

   My son was a CS/Math major, and worked in the insurance and banking back
end industries writing COBOL code. Hated it.

Rich
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