Teaching Cobol Ought To Be

Industry Suffers From The Managerial Dogma That For The Sake Of Stability And Continuity, The Company Should Be Independent Of The Competence Of Individual Employees.

Fortran, The Infantile Disorder, By Now Nearly 20 Years Old, Is Hopelessly Inadequate For Whatever Computer Application You Have In Mind Today: It Is Now Too Clumsy, Too Risky, And Too Expensive To Use.

The Use Of Cobol Cripples The Mind; Its Teaching Should, Therefore, Be Regarded As A Criminal Offense.

The Tools We Use Have A Profound And Devious Influence On Our Thinking Habits, And Therefore On Our Thinking Abilities.

The Effort Of Using Machines To Mimic The Human Mind Has Always Struck Me As Rather Silly. I Would Rather Use Them To Mimic Something Better.