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- From: johnm@cajal.uoregon.edu (John Martin)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: >>>>>>> Most Widely Used Language?
- Keywords: n
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.191141.17411@nntp.uoregon.edu>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 19:11:41 GMT
- References: <ssimmons.714403117@convex.convex.com> <seZHlOz0BwwZ9f8wIy@transarc.com>
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- Organization: Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon
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- In article <seZHlOz0BwwZ9f8wIy@transarc.com>, Erik_Brown@transarc.com writes:
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- >ssimmons@convex.com (Steve Simmons) writes:
- > - My company is in on-line transaction processing (OLTP), and
- > you don't have a good OLTP product unless you can support
- > COBOL integration and development.
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- Huh? I don't understand. You mean that you cannot make a solid and useful
- OLTP system unless you use COBOL? I beg to differ...
-
- Although I can program in both COBOL and FORTRAN, I primarily use C, so I
- cannot claim personal experience with this -- but friends have told me that
- you would find great difficulty finding a job unless you could program in
- C, and/or common Assembly languages.
-
- --
- John Martin johnm@cajal.uoregon.edu
- Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 97402
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