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- From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
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- Subject: Re: Is COBOL Dead?!
- Date: 28 Feb 96 18:46:21 GMT
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
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- In <4gqm0tINNjvo@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku) writes:
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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.
- >
- >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.
-
- Try to port the "hello, world" program to COBOL. If your interest in
- COBOL survives this experience, go ahead with gCOBOL :-) You may also
- like AppleScript, which should have been named son-of-COBOL :-)
-
- Dan
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- Dan Pop
- CERN, CN Division
- Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch
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