Board:   [DoveNet] Unix/Linux
Subject: Re: What is UNIX? (was: H
From:    poindexter FORTRAN
Date:    Wed Nov 11, 2026 09:40

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-=> Timex wrote to nblade <=-

 nb> Good Luck learning Cobol. I haven't touch that since college. In
 nb> a wierd way, I wish I still had my textbooks on it. Hell I wish
 nb> I still had my old books on Pascal. I've been thinking about
 nb> relearning that just fun.

 I'm sure you could find your old books on Usenet or used book shops. I
 went on a nostalgia bent and picked up some of my old textbooks from my
 CD days - K&Rs The C Programming Language, Algorithms by Sedgwick, the
 first Donald Knuth book and Numerican Recipes in FORTRAN.

 COBOL would be a nice skill to have in your back pocket for a side
 hustle, I'm sure a lot of government code is running in COBOL (or
 RPG/4).

 Heck, seeing virtual AS/400s and other IBM midrange systems, it might
 be a rabbit hole to create an entire vintage computing environment to
 practice on!



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