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Originally Posted by flipper35
That, and you were learning programming in FORTRAN or Cobal.
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I just LOL'd because on my first resume that I had typeset after graduating, they misspelled COBOL, and I didn't catch it either
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FORTRAN was indeed the first programming language when obtaining my degree and yep, I had to take that pussified crap they called COBOL, but never used either ever again after those classes. Our 2nd course was the "weeder" intended to eliminate folks like Bob
...I think in my class of around 30, I made an "A", another a "C", and the rest had incompletes that later turned to "F". I was the "curve killer" in most of my courses. Pascal was actually the language most used in college....from writing compilers, to systems simulators, but I never really wanted to program for a living, so I didn't...unless it was tweaking the guts of the OS or something. Started on punch cards...college had Burroughs and VAX computers with our 370 IBM mainframes located in Research Triangle Park. First job was in IBM's Advanced Communications Division working in microcode development at RTP, and I knew I'd found my career...systems/networking, and I loved it until I became burned out on corporate bs....retired at 48, and have never looked back
Damn...that was a long time ago...sorry for the walk down memory lane....64k worth anyways...
