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Discussion on: COBOL - not dead; not dying; not even idle

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Divakar Rajashekaran

The first language I ever learned, along with Fortran and Assembly.

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Bruce Axtens • Edited

Mine were 8080 assembler, MBASIC, COBOL, and dBase II. The fact that I could touch-type meant I had time to learn other stuff as well like Pascal, Fortran, Vax DCL and CBASIC. And I've been a language junkie ever since: I'm currently studying 9 languages on exercism.

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Divakar Rajashekaran

Dbase 3+ and Pascal after, for me. Thanks for the site info, I use a bunch of online resource for recent programming, but I am more into data and my coding days are made minimal with current role. But I still dabble when I make an opportunity for it