Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: What languages do you want. Message-ID: <8908021958.aa11137@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 2 Aug 89 20:23:06 GMT References: Organization: The Internet Lines: 21 >Here's one for all of you. At one of the sessions in Kansas it was present to >Apple that their was a need for more high level languages for the GS. The >2 most Vocally reprented were Fortran and (heaven forbid) COBAL. It's certainly not a BAL, er ball, if you have to write a data division for COBOL ('O' - as in how you feel if someone asks you to maintain the payroll written in ...guess what :-( The best reason for making COBOL, in some form, available on the IIgs is that the largest number of job VACANCIES for programmers IS for COBOL. Think of how many people could pay their own way through college maintaining business software; it may be mind numbing, but it beats flipping burgers. Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90] Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] (203) 486-5246 [FAX] (203) 486-2489 [PHONE] 41 49N 72 15W [ICBM] -+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)