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- From: emery@Dr_No.mitre.org (David Emery)
- Subject: Re: The inevitable question
- In-Reply-To: mcmahan@cs.unca.edu's message of Sat, 25 Jul 1992 15:42:43 GMT
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- Perl is a neat language, but it's substantially less
- readable/understandable/maintainable than C, from what I've seen...
-
- The hallmark of COBOL systems is maintenance. That's because they
- tend to last a very long time. A language that does not
- provide/support software understandability and maintenance is not an
- adequate replacement for COBOL.
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- dave
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