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- From: sg928ah5@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu (James Ianni)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Is COBOL Dead?!
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 21:10:22 GMT
- Organization: Drexel University
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- shon frazier (vtipres@atl.mindspring.com) wrote:
- : I wouldn't even use COBOL for business programming. The time it takes
- : to code most things takes forever. So much more can be created in
- : much less time by many currently available environments.
- : I am interested in the COBOL speed vs C speed debate. To argue though
- : I need more technical information.
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- The nice thing about COBOL is that you don't need to comment it since
- it's so long-winded in it's code. This is nice for it forces your
- programming team to write and comment at the same time...
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