Someone I work with has this on their shelf:
COBOL for the 21st
Century<http://www.amazon.com/COBOL-21st-Century-Nancy-Stern/dp/sitb-next/0471722618>
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On 09/17/2011 09:30 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote:
> [snip]
>
>
>> And some aspirin and other stress relief aids, to help ease the pain
>> resulting from repeated banging of head against keyboard trying to
>> get any non-trivial COBOL program implemented and doing useful work.
>>
>>
> Bah!
>
> The Shelly & Cashman books from the early 1980s *sucked*. Their obsession
> with GOTO-less programming absolutely *destroyed* the language's reputation.
>
> Once I got into the Real World, really competent professionals taught me
> how great COBOL is at the task it was designed for.
>
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