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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Thanks a lot, now I feel old.
When I went, the primary languages were Cobal, Cobal + report Writer. Pascal, Prologue, C/C++ and Dbase IV. Oh and JCL and assembler.
I might as well have taken a course in Attic Greek so that I would have a handle on all of the dead languages.
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If you had RPG to go along with your JCL and Cobal, we are still using that stuff (extensively). It is far from dead, at least judging from the other companies that we share mainframe space with.
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