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From: ecwu61@castle.ed.ac.uk (R Renwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: More about BASIC vs. Pascal vs. C (the flame war continues !)
Message-ID: <8538@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 18 Feb 91 10:44:22 GMT
References: <5129@acorn.co.uk> <mT5eX12w163w@mantis.co.uk>
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In article <mT5eX12w163w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:
>asmith@acorn.co.uk (Andy Smith) writes:
>> In article <VBD0w17w163w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:
>> >He said commercial SYSTEMS software. Little commercial systems software is
>> >written in FORTRAN, and almost none in COBOL. FORTRAN is restricted almost
>> >exclusively to scientific software, and COBOL is used almost exclusively
>> >for business data processing.
>> 
>> You mean these aren't commercial systems??
>
>(*sigh*)
>
>Please learn the difference between commercial software systems and
>commercial systems software.
>
        Oh please, please, please do enlighten us mortals Mathew.  [:-)

Rik


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