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From: barton@holston.UUCP (Barton A. Fisk)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: comp.lang.cobol
Summary: COBOL needs a newsgroup!
Message-ID: <5646@holston.UUCP>
Date: 24 Nov 89 21:55:26 GMT
References: <480@enea.se> <1989Nov21.013021.4170@eng.umd.edu> <430@scorn.sco.COM> <1989Nov22.173505.24650@ico.isc.com>
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In article <1989Nov22.173505.24650@ico.isc.com>, rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
> 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

I'm sure that there's just as much to say about COBOL as there is about
any other language.

There are at least as many different Cobol's running on as many different
architectures as any other compiler.

How much is there to say about prolog or fourth?

I'm not married to COBOL, but when I get file specs from US Govt fiscal
intermediaries, they're not in pascal or modula2, they're COBOL!

All I'm saying is COBOL has it's place and should have it's own newsgroup
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