Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer

Re:Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer by sillyquiet on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @02:17PM (#26728739)

I took a survey of historical programming languages course in college that covered FORTRAN, COBOL, SNOBOL, Prolog, SmallTalk, and several others of importance or uniqueness. Each section required a small practical program be written in that language, and we discussed each in its context of usage, 'family tree', syntax etc

I guess I am saying programming history classes is where COBOL belongs.

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Re:Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer by bogomipz on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @04:48PM (#26731041)

This course sounds really interesting. Do you remember if there was a text book or if there is any online syllabus for it?

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Re:Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer by sillyquiet on Friday April 09, 2021 @10:14AM (#26750827)

This was 20 odd years ago, so I do not remember clearly if there was a text. I think there was not. Almost certainly no to the online syllabus as that professor is long retired and when I took the class he was still using overhead projector transparencies.

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