Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Java primitive variable objects Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 22:08:09 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <33c95894-2638-4484-af5d-545701d34372@googlegroups.com> <50an5t3qzn7b.1xn5v5d0imjxh$.dlg@40tude.net> <9bd4f37d-dc09-46f8-8722-92615ac542ef@googlegroups.com> <2fa8e907-f6b4-4bd5-b6cb-304b25c5e754@googlegroups.com> <7eef65ae-2981-41cd-ab77-f5142babd3b7@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 1lM8B9/qdtKBc/uIRK2Gjw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:33093 On 11/10/2015 1:10 PM, Eric Douglas wrote: > On Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at 12:23:26 PM UTC-5, Jerry Stuckle > wrote: >> I don't know what college your friend attended, but even in the >> 70's I don't know of any universities which only taught COBOL as a >> CS major. In my university, engineering students were required to >> learn FORTRAN (and not much else CS-wise), and I think (but am not >> positive) some business-related studies required COBOL. But CS >> required much more. > > My brother was a CS major. He does AI development. He learned > FORTRAN, Pascal, C, all that fun stuff, no COBOL. They ought to > teach COBOL to CS majors, considering how many with CS degrees seek > jobs in the CIS field. Learning COBOL will just learn you to program in COBOL. You should learn to program. Languages like Algol and Pascal is very good at teaching basic imperative logic and algorithms. C++ would have taught you OO concepts. Arne