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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: comp.lang.cobol
Summary: forget the insults - is there anything to say?
Message-ID: <1989Nov22.173505.24650@ico.isc.com>
Date: 22 Nov 89 17:35:05 GMT
References: <480@enea.se> <1989Nov21.013021.4170@eng.umd.edu> <430@scorn.sco.COM>
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Yeah, everybody likes to flame COBOL but it's the most important language
in the commercial world so we should be nice and respect it.  So what?
Does it need a newsgroup?  Commercial significance doesn't mean squat; is
there anything to SAY about it?  If there's a need for yet another
newsgroup, where has the discussion been hiding out so far?

Looks like just another in the spate of newsgroups proposed for the sake of
trying to get the newsgroup hierarchy to span the entire universe of human
endeavor, regardless of whether anyone has anything to say.
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com    uucp: {ncar,nbires}!ico!rcd     (303)449-2870
   ...`Just say no' to mindless dogma.