[Info-vax] Writer advice requested

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

On 2010-11-15 20:28, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> On 11/15/2010 1:06 PM, Rob Brown wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 at 18:52 -0000, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>
>>> What's wrong with COBOL?
>>
>> A cross between Assembler and English, with all the disadvantages of both.
>>
>
> 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.
>
>

So COBOL would not be OK even if it "paid the bills" ?
It does for me so I guess I like COBOL... :-)