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From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Object-Oriented Development Efforts
Message-ID: <1990Jan21.211023.23538@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 21 Jan 90 21:10:23 GMT
References: <24386@gryphon.COM> <1364@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM>
Reply-To: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <1364@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM> prager@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM (David Prager) writes:
>Oh, no, its older engineers! Pretty soon, we're going to stop using
>punchcards for our work. We may not program in anything as radical
>as C++, but we are looking into OOPS; maybe Fortran++.
>

Hey, just as long as it isn't object oriented COBOL.  I can't tell you
how much it scared me to hear that they were actually planning that one.
Heck, that's just as bad as Presentation Manager development with COBOL.
-- 
"I place my faith in fools.  Self confidence, my friends call it."
					-Edgar Allen Poe

Patrick Deupree -> patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us