[Info-vax] And another one bites the dust....

[Dan Cross]

In article <j7f2o5F37kcU1 at mid.individual.net>,
Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> As to teaching Cobol, learning computer languages should be a part of 
>> university, if the student chooses.  I had a semester of Cobol when I 
>> was in school, maybe 50 some years ago.
>
>50 years ago?  What school and what degree program?  Computers were in
>their infancy in the University system in those days with only a couple
>major colleges offering degrees in it.

50 years ago was 1972.  COBOL was already a teenager at that point,
Unix was a going concern, C made its first appearance that year, and
computers were hardly in their infancy.  We even had the ARPANET by
then, driven largely out of academia.

	- Dan C.