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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Is COBOL Dead?!
- Date: 10 Mar 1996 10:21:07 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Message-ID: <4hv6ijINNpki@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
- References: <danpop.825533181@rscernix> <329669.11733.25091@kcbbs.gen.nz>
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- In article <329669.11733.25091@kcbbs.gen.nz>,
- Richard Plinston <riplin@kcbbs.gen.nz> wrote:
- >>
- >> 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 :-)
- >
- >Let me see now, full ANSI85 program:
- >
- > Identification Division.
- > Program-Id. Hello.
- > Procedure Division.
- > Main.
- > DISPLAY "Hello World".
- >
- >Wow, that is almost several pages.
-
- Compared to the modernist poetry of the C language, this reads like a
- transcript of a contorted phone call through a highly bureaucratic
- organization... :)
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