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From: gilmore@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Neil Gilmore)
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Subject: Re: Programming books
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Date: 18 Feb 90 08:50:13 GMT
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In article <1990Feb18.083802.26571@lavaca.uh.edu>, jet@karazm.tmc.edu (j. eric townsend) writes...

>Step 1 in learning a real language:  Unlearn all the stupid languages
>you know.  I'm speaking as a convert -- I had to unlearn a *lot* of COBOL. :-)

Not me. I spent too much money learning COBOL to unlearn it. Too bad I 
never use it, although I have been toying about with the idea of writing 
a COBOL compiler for 68000 (just as an exercise, you know, something 
simple).

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