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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Is COBOL Dead?!
- Date: 25 Feb 1996 13:57:49 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- In article <4gq01f$rg2@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, PJLoree <pjloree@aol.com> wrote:
- >I am a graduate student in the MBA program at California Polytechnical
- >University in Pomona. For my Master's thesis, I am studying the viable of
- >the COBOL programming language. Many articles have being written
- >condemning the continued use of COBOL and yet a large number of the
- >industry professionals still seem to champion the language. This study
- >is an attempt to determine if COBOL is still meeting the needs of the
- >industry, and, if so, how is it now being used.
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- COBOL Rocks! The first chance I get, I'm writing a COBOL compiler for the GCC
- front end, unless someone has already beat me to it.
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- Enough people have said bad things about COBOL to lead me to believe that it
- must be great. This heuristic worked for me in the case of the editor vi.
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