Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!oz.cis.ohio-state.edu!jgreely From: jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: comp.lang.cobol Message-ID: Date: 21 Nov 89 02:59:05 GMT References: <480@enea.se> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: J Greely Followup-To: news.groups Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 14 In-reply-to: sommar@enea.se's message of 19 Nov 89 19:40:17 GMT In article <480@enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes: >About all major programming languages have their own newsgroup, >but Cobol has not. Yet is the Cobol probably the most common >language used in the software industry. As a former COBOL programmer (hey, I needed the money), I second the idea, but I think it should be named comp.lang.obsolete. But I'm not wedded to the name: comp.bugs.cobol is also acceptable. Visual aid for the humor impaired: :-) -=- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)