programming in COBOL
Cobol was the one language I've used that I absolutely hated. hated. hated. We learnt Cobol in the late 70's during my 2nd year University CS and we had to produce a non-trivial program using batch Cobol (punched cards). I think it was a banking program. I vowed then I'd never write another line of Cobol - and I never have - although I've still got my old Cobol books. The verbosity of the language with it's compute statement. Ahh. I've got a migraine coming on just thinking about it.... In the 1980's I turned down a job with a software house as I might have to use Cobol depending upon client requirements.