17 Jun
2026
17 Jun
'26
10:59 a.m.
On Wed, 17 Jun 2026, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
COBOL is "dead" because academia said it
was. The price you pay for
not letting the ivory tower masters drive the bus.
UC Berkeley's CS department stopped teaching COBOL and Fortran, while each
of those was still a degree requirement in some UC Berkeley degrees!
UC Berkeley students needing either of those degree requirements had to go
take them at the community colleges!
(Those were studious hard working students, but not as enthusistic,
motivated, and bright as the students in the same classes that were there
of their own free will for adult enrichment.)
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com