[ale] [ALE] Happy Birthday BASIC

[Jon "maddog" Hall]

One simple google search found 204 Cobol jobs listed:

https://www.indeed.com/q-cobol-programmer-jobs.html?vjk=757dd953adfce07b

There are probably more.

md

On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 12:35 PM Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Chuck Payne via Ale said on Thu, 23 May 2024 10:28:04 -0400
>
>
> >I am surprise with all the talk of fortran, that poor cobol being left
> >in the cold.
>
> I've used GNU Cobol with the built in indexed files. I like Cobol. My
> only problems with it are 1) It doesn't have procedure level local
> variables, and 2) Because nobody uses it, I can't get help and I can't
> make money with it.
>
> SteveT
>
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