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Re: Is there a COBOL mode?

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From: PaulI hate COBOL Placeway
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 1990 18:51
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fe2o3!coleman@BALEEN.CS.UCLA.EDU (Michael Coleman) writes:

< Isn't it pitiful when the editor you are using is a better programming
< environment than the *language* you are using??

Yup.  I wouldn't have done it by choice, but the Powers That Be at
Ohio State CIS actually *wanted* to teach COBOL.  On Suns no less.
Bletch.

		--P

ps: I do *NOT* take requests for or bug fixes to cobol-mode.el -- It's
a strictly as-is sorta thing.
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