<div dir="ltr">Any of them using COBOL?<div><br></div><div>But seriously, learning COBOL would make a student a rare and valuable find for most banks out there! </div><div>Before 2000, banks were dragging greybeard COBOL programmers out of their retirement home and throwing money at them to fix the impending two-digit year apocalypse.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 11:26, Vera Cook <<a href="mailto:vcook@mscw.vic.edu.au">vcook@mscw.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Hi I don’t think there is any reason, my kids are using a variety of languages.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Victoria Farrell<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 9 May 2019 11:19 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Year 12 SofDev] Prog Languages<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is there any reason why all the SD students within a class need to all use the same programming language for their SAT?<u></u><u></u></p>
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