I started with FORTRAN IV at university in the early 70's on punch cards. Then learned BASIC, then COBOL68, then ALGOL60, then Pascal. Next was DEC Macro10 assembler, C and HP's SPL. Then back to COBOL74, a variety of 4GL's and then Perl, VB and C#. Now after a few years of retirement I've regained my interest in programming so I'm learning PHP, Go and Solidity.
I'm astonsihed that COBOL didn't appear in any of the stories above.
I started with FORTRAN IV at university in the early 70's on punch cards. Then learned BASIC, then COBOL68, then ALGOL60, then Pascal. Next was DEC Macro10 assembler, C and HP's SPL. Then back to COBOL74, a variety of 4GL's and then Perl, VB and C#. Now after a few years of retirement I've regained my interest in programming so I'm learning PHP, Go and Solidity.
I'm astonsihed that COBOL didn't appear in any of the stories above.