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From: econrad@thor.wright.edu (Eric Conrad)
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Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: comp.lang.cobo
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Date: 29 Nov 89 18:01:34 GMT
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From article <117400004@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, by smk90219@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu:
> 
> Well, I know I'm technically nobody, but I'm curious:
> Are you sure cobol isn't dead?  I thought it had been replaced by, say,
> Natural/Adabas, Modula, C++, etc.
> At least here in the U.S.
> 
> 		--  Just Wondering

Well, I've been away from the real world for about two years but it
seems like COBOL is still the biggie in the business world despite
annual post-mortems by people here in academia.  Most of the languages
which purport to replace it either don't support a reasonable file model
or can't do fixed-point arithmetic in base ten.

Not that people who program in it love the language.  I never yet met a
COBOL fanatic.  It just did what it was supposed to, albeit clumsily.

-- Eric Conrad