Re: Language "ranking" based on posts to users groups

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From: Larry Smith
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 18:31

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In article <4b77d9$bka@hasle.sn.no>, balchen@sn.no (Jens Balchen Jr.) writes:
 >In article <4b6ffb$joh@news.onramp.net>, oa@iah.com (Rick Lutowski) threw this at us:

 >>>>     1    6,012   rexx
 >>>>     2    6,832   cobol

 >>This must explain why all the banks use cobol - can't afford mistakes
 >>when it comes to money transaction software!

 >Then why do they make mistakes...??

Because the gov't will bail them out of any mistake they can make.
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| | |__ | | || |-< | |-<  >  /  | in taking as much money as possible from   |
| `----'`-^-'`-'`-'`-'`-' `-'   | one ... citizen ... to give to the other." |
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From: larrys@enemax.zk3.dec.com (Larry Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal.misc,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.asm.x86,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.postscript,comp.lang.java,comp.lang.clipper,comp.lang.forth,comp.lang.cobol,comp.lang.rexx,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.python,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.scheme
Subject: Re: Language "ranking" based on posts to users groups
Date: 20 Dec 1995 18:31:59 GMT
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