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Article #768Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: comp.lang.cobo
From: Eric Conrad
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1989 18:01
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1989 18:01
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From article <117400004@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, by smk90219@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu: > > Well, I know I'm technically nobody, but I'm curious: > Are you sure cobol isn't dead? I thought it had been replaced by, say, > Natural/Adabas, Modula, C++, etc. > At least here in the U.S. > > -- Just Wondering Well, I've been away from the real world for about two years but it seems like COBOL is still the biggie in the business world despite annual post-mortems by people here in academia. Most of the languages which purport to replace it either don't support a reasonable file model or can't do fixed-point arithmetic in base ten. Not that people who program in it love the language. I never yet met a COBOL fanatic. It just did what it was supposed to, albeit clumsily. -- Eric Conrad
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ncrlnk!wright!thor.wright.edu From: econrad@thor.wright.edu (Eric Conrad) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: comp.lang.cobo Message-ID: <859@thor.wright.EDU> Date: 29 Nov 89 18:01:34 GMT References: <117400004@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@wright.EDU Reply-To: econrad@thor.wright.edu Lines: 19