I went to a computer conference in the mid 80’s for my first job after college - where COBOL, IBM/360 assembly language and FORTRAN were required CsC courses -

I went to a computer conference in the mid 80’s for my first job after college - where COBOL, IBM/360 assembly language and FORTRAN were required CsC courses - and the international attendees used COBOL as a common speaking language. So conversations like IF HUNGRY PERFORM EATING were common. haha.