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From: klimas@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Object-Oriented COBOL?
Message-ID: <2060.2747a134@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Date: 19 Nov 90 14:09:08 GMT
References: <694@ghp.UUCP> <1864.2736eae0@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> <2558@runxtsa.runx.oz.au>
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In article <2558@runxtsa.runx.oz.au>, timm@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Tim Menzies) writes:
> In article <1864.2736eae0@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> klimas@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes:
>>In article <694@ghp.UUCP>, tom@ghp.UUCP (Tom Huras) writes:
>>> Has anyone managed to work object-orientation into a traditional data
>>> processing environment?
> 
> [stuff deleted]
> 
>>	OOP dilettanti beware, two million + Smalltalk programmers might be
>>	waiting to take your job!
> 
> two million smalltalkers? yeah? references? comparisions with other OO
> languages?

	This was a (very?) subtle attempt at some levity!

	The warning was that the two million current COBOL programmers
	might in fact become excellent Smalltalk programmers based upon
	some preliminary experiences in training them!