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Re:IBM will offer free COBOL training by spindle on Saturday April 11, 2020 @05:54AM (#22840752)
Absolutely (and I say that as an erstwhile mainframe COBOL programmer). The language itself is dead easy.
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Re:IBM will offer free COBOL training by Koshkin on Saturday April 11, 2020 @01:44PM (#22842940)
The language isn't dead (and doesn't have to be). If anything, it must be taught as part of a programming language design course. In a way COBOL is similar to SQL which is far from dying. (IMHO it would have been useful if they had merged into one language; the available embedding of SQL into COBOL was kinda clunky.)
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Re:IBM will offer free COBOL training by chihuahua on Saturday April 11, 2020 @03:24PM (#22843556)
The person you're responding to didn't claim that COBOL is dead. He/she wrote that COBOL is "dead easy", meaning "very easy".
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