Today was a very appropriate day to learn about Grace Murray Hopper in my ongoing attempt to become a better dilettante programmer.

@JMaxB If I had any ... Meantime, I am very slowly gaining a theoretical understanding of Python, but I am determined to wait until the end of the course until I start to build anything.

@jeremycherfas I wonder if anyone is trained in COBOL anymore. It was really big in its day, but that day is long gone. I'd guess that a fair number of ancient systems (probably some important ones) still run on COBOL, and will be in big trouble if they need to find someone to debug their code.

@JMaxB I hear that good COBOL people can more or less name their price. For what it’s worth, I did FORTRAN at university long before BASIC tainted me forever. Hey Ho, happy days.