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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Is COBOL Dead?!
- From: riplin@kcbbs.gen.nz (Richard Plinston)
- Date: 10 Mar 96 03:15:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <329669.11733.25091@kcbbs.gen.nz>
- References: <danpop.825533181@rscernix>
- Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand
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- >
- > 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 :-)
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- Let me see now, full ANSI85 program:
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- Identification Division.
- Program-Id. Hello.
- Procedure Division.
- Main.
- DISPLAY "Hello World".
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- Wow, that is almost several pages.
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