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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Is COBOL Dead?!
- Date: 29 Feb 1996 15:30:22 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- In article <3135D17D.38E673BD@eiffel.com>,
- Guus Leeuw jr. <guusl@eiffel.com> wrote:
- >Kazimir Kylheku wrote:
- >>
- >[snip snip]
- >> 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.
- >>
- >> 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.
- >
- >Just curious: Will it work for DOS as well? I mean your beating DOS like hell and favoring UNIX
- >like heaven, so I guess you think DOS is great (many people said bad things about it... ;-)
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- It only works for things I don't already know.
-
- >Regards,
- > Guus
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