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Aaron Trevena wrote: > Yeah - COBOL - it was already "legacy" when it was taught to us at > college You'd be surprised. COBOL was still in active development when I left Micro Focus in '95. There was even an OO COBOL standard and I'm sure someone was working on CGI-type interfaces even after I left. Horrid language, though. Fortunately I never had to use it. > There was also > an optional course in the "new and modern C programming language", > which is odd as K&R was published at least a decade before I went to > college. 1978, according to the copy I have here on my shelf, though it's a dodgy Taiwanese knock-off so it may be wrong. James -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html