"The average [professional] FORTRAN programmer majored in computer science... the average COBOL programmer majored in social science or humanities." From a programmer profile in a psychological study, 1987. Wonder if the latter is still true for any language today.
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The study was run in Chicago, not sure what the predominant FORTRAN-using industry would have been there. If it was industry, perhaps more plausible that it's programmers/computer scientists than engineers?
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*If it was finance
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