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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: comp.lang.cobol
Message-ID: <1989Nov23.013955.9903@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 23 Nov 89 01:39:55 GMT
References: <5643@holston.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <5643@holston.UUCP> by barton@holston.UUCP (Barton A. Fisk):
+---------------
| In article <480@enea.se>, sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
| > Cobol is not dead, it just smells funny.
| 
| Let's face it, COBOL is alive and well in many DP shops around
| the world.
| 
| I for one would welcome a group as such. Perhaps those who
| love to bash cobol would rather be saddled with RPG.
| 
| At least cobol is non-proprietary. Let's give it a break and
| let those who are interested have a forum on the net.
+---------------

Agreed.  I use COBOL as little as possible myself, but am quite aware of the
massive effort required to take a working COBOL program suite and convert it
to another language (having had to do so a few months ago).  Besides which,
"if it ain't broke, don't fix it".  People who think that the whole world
should convert megabytes upon megabytes' worth of COBOL programs to some other
language just to make *them* happy have a major misunderstanding of reality.

I'm neutral on a COBOL group, but am very much AGAINST the anti-COBOL flames
that greeted this Call for Discussion.

++Brandon
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