[Info-vax] Writer advice requested

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 11/15/2010 1:06 PM, Rob Brown wrote:
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> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 at 18:52 -0000, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
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>> What's wrong with COBOL?
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> A cross between Assembler and English, with all the disadvantages of both.
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COBOL is okay in its place!  Its place, however, is not where I want to 
work.  It was my first high level language (Computer Programming 101 & 
102 from the University of Virginia).

FORTRAN IV was my second language, self taught, from D.D. McCracken's 
"Introduction to FORTRAN IV Programming.  FORTRAN was what paid the 
bills for many years.