14-11-2010, 05:49 AM
I notice that you skipped over about 40 years' worth of computer language evolution, Craig.
Out here in the real world, we still use COBOL extensively, along with all that supports it (JCL on the mainframe, shell scripting of various sorts elsewhere), although .NET and Java have both been making inroads over the past 10 years.
Object oriented languages, such as C# and Java, started to appear in the 1980s, but really didn't start to come to the fore until the 1990s. Prior to that programming followed the procedural paradigm (think of a program as one class with all attributes and methods public). COBOL was king in the business world!
By the way, I have worked in IT for 26 years, although I never studied CS at university (my degree was in maths). I wrote my first computer program (in BASIC) somewhere around 1975 or 1976, I think.
Mark (.NET developer wannabe, and UNIX/COBOL developer).
P.S. I recall using logo on an Amstrad PCW8256 in the 1980s. Classic piece of kit!
Out here in the real world, we still use COBOL extensively, along with all that supports it (JCL on the mainframe, shell scripting of various sorts elsewhere), although .NET and Java have both been making inroads over the past 10 years.
Object oriented languages, such as C# and Java, started to appear in the 1980s, but really didn't start to come to the fore until the 1990s. Prior to that programming followed the procedural paradigm (think of a program as one class with all attributes and methods public). COBOL was king in the business world!
By the way, I have worked in IT for 26 years, although I never studied CS at university (my degree was in maths). I wrote my first computer program (in BASIC) somewhere around 1975 or 1976, I think.
Mark (.NET developer wannabe, and UNIX/COBOL developer).
P.S. I recall using logo on an Amstrad PCW8256 in the 1980s. Classic piece of kit!