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From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: VMSNET.COBOL      ( Re: Call  for Discussion: alt.cobol)
Message-ID: <527@enea.se>
Date: 5 Dec 89 20:51:52 GMT
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Jeff Trim (jeff@jeffpc.UUCP) writes:
>COBOL is typically found on VMS-ish OS's anyway and since the heirarchy
>is starting out they can easily go over to 'vmsnet' - that way the
>readership will grow and 'alt' will get smaller.   Folks on VMS talk
>alot about COBOL so it could be a good match.
>
>What does everyone else think?  Might even add some creedence to the
>'vmsnet' heirarchy.

There are two alternatives. 1) Jeff Trim is completely serious.
2) Jeff is saying the above with the tongue well masked in the
cheek. There is not much evidence of the latter, except that
that would give better impression of his intellectual status.

If he really is serious, the idea is of course ridiculous. VMSnet
is about VMS. And Cobol is used on many operating systems, even
Unix. And there's no particular binding VMS - Cobol. If you swap
the to first character to MVS, then maybe.
  And, people on VMS doesn't talk much about Cobol, at least not
INFO-VAX/comp.os.vms. The language which which most people seems
to have problems with there is C.

OK, so Jeff wants to keep "alt" down. I've good news for you. With
some luck alt.cobol won't be needed. There is a vote
for comp.lang.cobol going on right now. Just send your vote to me.
     -- 
Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se


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