Re: COBOL -> C converter

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From: John Robert Leavitt
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 1988 06:57

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>However you slice it, COBOL->C conversion still smells like baloney to me!


That's dandy.  And you ARE rigth that converting COBOL to any Algol descended
language may be kludgy, but...

Is is the Algol-based language's fault?  Or is it COBOL's fault?

Points to ponder...

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From: jl3j+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Robert Leavitt)
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Subject: Re: COBOL -> C converter
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