>> Trust me, I have limited knowledge of COBOL and C. The most advanced
>> things I did in C were pointers and some arrays!
>You wouldn't need much knowledge beyond that. (COBOL is evil, BTW). :)
Actually COBOL itself is not evil, just the concept behind it.
Imagine the letdown all those managerial types would have
copped when they found they _still_ couldn't write their own
programs and had to hire programmers to do it for them <Big Grin>.
The language itself does have a certain style to it, it's just
so verbose! (And so abysmally unsuited for scientific applications,
that's why they had to develop FORTRAN as well <smirk>.) The chief
occupational hazard of early COBOL programmers was writers cramp
from filling out all those coding forms, neatly enough that the
card punch operators could read them <Grin>.
Cheers all,
Alan