I had COBOL as one of the subjects during my engineering course in the early '90s in India. Absolutely hated it. We first learnt Pascal. There is a lot to love

I had COBOL as one of the subjects during my engineering course in the early '90s in India. Absolutely hated it. We first learnt Pascal. There is a lot to love about Pascal and in those days the Borland TurboPascal compiler was a breeze to use. Then they dropped the COBOL hammer. We learnt programming this on our comp lab's mini computer. This was the most excruciating class of all. Finally, we moved to C, followed by Compiler construction, Operating systems etc., The trauma of COBOL still lingers. Luckily, I never had to touch COBOL as a professional. ps: In India, for Comp Sci & Engg in those days, we had a fixed set of subjects for the first, second and third years. The fourth year is when we had two electives in each semester. The programming languages were mandatory during the second/third years.