[Info-vax] Writer advice requested

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 11/15/2010 3:49 PM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> 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... :-)

Hey!  Pay me and I'll write COBOL.  Though I expect I'll have to 
re-learn it.  I'm sure that the language has changed a great deal since 
1968!  There have been how many revisions to the standard in the last 42 
years?