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- Subject: Re: Is COBOL Dead?!
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 14:11:34 GMT
- Organization: Internet Central Limited
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- riplin@kcbbs.gen.nz (Richard Plinston) writes:
- > >
- > > 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.
- >
- Yeah we all know how crap, how slow, how long winded cobol is
- and some of us are forced to use it as it's part of my college
- course. We really complained but it did no good.
-