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It's been about 20 years since I programmed in COBOL. I kind of stepped in on a project at work when I was working for the state of Texas. My job was as a statistician but I would get thrown programming assignments on occasion. Someone else wrote the base code for the program, but I worked out all of the bugs within the code and was surprised by some of the obvious mistakes that the high dollar programmers made--about 30% of the tests that I developed resulted in edit failures. I had to add entire sub-routines in order for the program to function correctly.

It is good to have the fundamentals down and I'm surprised when that knowledge comes in handy.

I missed Ada and PL-1, but I also have some FORTRAN in my background--it would be funny to see if it ever comes back into vogue.

I also have some work experience in VB, VBA and was considered a guru on Microsoft Access if you ever need a resource.