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Re:Ask YC: Does anyone know of any good Cobol tutorials? by cooldude127 on Thursday May 08, 2008 @09:58PM (#185132)
did you also post this on reddit? ;-)
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Re:Ask YC: Does anyone know of any good Cobol tutorials? by cao825 on Thursday May 08, 2008 @10:01PM (#185134)
Indeed ;)

Just trying to get a good sample, I guess... I have no real idea of the hell on earth that I am walking into.

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Re:Ask YC: Does anyone know of any good Cobol tutorials? by wanorris on Friday May 09, 2008 @01:19AM (#185246)
One of the first pieces of great advice I got from my first real programming mentor was to never learn COBOL, or someone will make you write it. :-)

After you learn first hand why no good hacker wants to write COBOL, you might want to heed a related piece of advice: never admit you can write COBOL to anyone, for precisely the same reason. :-)

My condolences on your new job, but I hope you make good money and do something fun with it.

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