[Coco] obscure programming languages was Re: books

[jdaggett at gate.net]

On 1 Dec 2007 at 11:29, Mark McDougall wrote:

> I was *forced* to study COBOL in my Computer Science degree back in
> '84. In fact I even did at least one of my assignments in RSCOBOL on
> my TRS-80 Model 4P - boy that was painful, even with 2 floppy drives.

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Mark

Try h aving to learn PL3 for a Computer in Management Course in 1971. 
Had to use IBM punch cards and ru nit on an IBM370. Get two or more  
cards out of order of about 250 cards and that is a pain in the royal to 
debug. 

Once saw a person with a  box of 2500 cards drop the lot and scattered 
them over the floor. Took hours to reasemble the cards in proper order. 

The only good thing about those punch cards was the confetti that they 
produced. It took my cousin 6 months to get the ten pounds of punch card 
confetti out of  his car. 

james