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	We currently teach a course on file access techniques, file processing
which uses COBOL as a tool.
	The course is aimed at information processing ; and the following
course is a database design, building, etc course.
	One of the aims is to give the students some exposure to programming
as well as the background for different types of database management systems.
However although the students have had some exposure to PASCAL they find the 
COBOL a bit of a drag. I would like an alternative.
	The software must be able to cope with sequential, hashing, and index
sequential files. A '4GL'( an awful name) may be approriate.
Either Unix, or Mac would be an appropriate operating system. PASCAL C are not
valid alternatives, nor is Ada. FORTRAN is also inappropriate. 
TODAY may be a valid option but the version I know of uses a relational back
end.
	One suggestion was to use LINC (sp?) but this was a Burroughs ; Unisys
operating system.
	Robert Pearson
rap@csadfa.oz