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From: alan@cogswell.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Alan S. Mazer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Motif -> Open Look look & feel
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Date: 2 Jul 90 16:05:36 GMT
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In article <100920232@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>, ben@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Benjamin Ellsworth) writes:
| 
| > 1) Count the number of applications actually shipping.  OpenLook wins
| >    by almost 2:1.  Count the number of SunView applications total.
| >    Easily the second most widely used look and feel in the world.
| 
| By some estimates, there are more lines of program written in COBOL
| currently running in the the world than all other languages (execpt
| maybe Fortran) combined.  Do we therefore conclude that COBOL is the
| language of choice for new program development?

No, you conclude that you better get a computer that runs COBOL if you
want access to that software.  If you want to rewrite that software in
C, go ahead, but don't expect _me_ to pay you to do it.  I'd rather buy  
a COBOL-running machine.  Just as I'd rather use a window system for
which there is already software available.

-- Alan				# <this space available>
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