Subj : Re: COBOL for Beginners
To   : smartyhall
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Dec 05 2019 07:10 am

-=> smartyhall wrote to All <=-

sm> I'm looking for a good place to start learning COBOL. I have experience
sm> with a variety of older languages, but there isn't anything in
sm> particular that I have true fluency with other than BASIC.

I studied CS in the late '80s, and there was a plethora of free languages
for DOS. I remember starting in Pascal and FORTRAN, then finding a LISP
interpreter and Modula-2 compilers available. And, of course, tons of ANSI C
compilers.

I never saw a COBOL compiler, don't know if it was because of demand or
hardware requirements - trying to think about the amount of work to get from
COBOL to X86 assembly boggles the mind.


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