"Others in the add1tocobol appear to b here and as a newby might learn something:)"
"I'm an old Cobol dude from the 80s. Stopped programming for a few years and am back in it again. Currently using php/mysql combination. However I am moving back into COBOL finally."
"Hi all. I'm Federico I'm from italy. I am working with powercobol since 2000. I started to use cobol since 1989. Actually I am testing the opencobol compiler. i wrote also a debugger (open source).you can get information from my site : www.tp-srl.it"
"I am a COBOL programmer. I want to belong to this group to have access to technical information and to keep abreast of new developments."
"I have been forced to join the Cult of Cobol! Help!! No, in reality I am a beginning Cobol user, and have so far found it fairly easy to pick up, as I have some prior programming knowledge and it being written in English and all."
"Hello. I am a cobol french user. My first question : Can i write in french ? "
"Looking to relearn COBAL, which I did when dinosaurs walked the earth back in the late 70's. "
"I'm a neeeeew guuuuy =))) I'm Risc/Crisis Management last year student from Moscow, Russia with big self-made IT experience (yay, i run OpenCOBOL on OpenBSD! eat it Adepts of Vista cult!!!)"
"I figured since Joe gets so pumped up when somebody joins this group, its what I could give him for Christmas this year that he would find meaningful. It doesn't hurt that I'm old enough to know that at one time COBOL ruled the planet. peace"