Is Cobol dead?

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From: Erland Sommarskog
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 1989 00:33

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smk90219@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>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  I thought it had been replaced by, say,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.

OK, I don't live in the US, so what do I know. I don't know about
Natural/Adabas but certainly wouldn't like to translate a program
from Cobol to C++ or even worse Modula-2. There are a lot of ugly 
things in Cobol, but there are a lot fancy features which are very 
handy for the kinds of applications you use Cobol.
-- 
Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se

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From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
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Subject: Is Cobol dead?
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Date: 3 Dec 89 00:33:30 GMT
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