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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: How standard is COBOL ?
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Date: Mon, 12-Nov-84 16:11:57 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 12 16:11:57 1984
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> My impression is that Cobol is the best standardized of widely used
> languages.

Certainly it is the *most* standardized, in a specific sense of the word:
as Bill Plauger pointed out in Washington, since the COBOL standard has
something like 12 different pieces that can be present or not in any given
implementation, there are 4096 different standard COBOLs.  That's easily
the most standards of any language I know.  Poor old FORTRAN only has
two (well, three if you count FORTRAN 66).
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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