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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: MIPS to offer COBOL
Message-ID: <1275@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Jan-87 02:18:13 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 22 02:18:13 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Jan-87 20:39:32 EST
References: <14392@amdcad.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <14392@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
>In the Jan 19, 1987 San Jose Mercury News, MIPS Computer Systems is
>advertising for a COBOL compiler engineer. Oh well, I guess it has to
>happen even to the best of us.

Care to suggest a better procedural language for "data processing" applications
programming?  For all it's faults COBOL is pretty effective for what it was
intended for...  C is nice, but pictures rival printf's when formating print
lines and other boring things.

>Don't forget to get some CICS types too, while you're at it.

Don't laugh at it unless you can hack it too...  Then laugh with the rest
of us fools who have done IBM work and survived.

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No please, please gimme back my unix guru badge - I promise never  not to say
dirty words like IBM, COBOL, DP, DASDI, CHANNEL PROGRAM, IOCS, VIRTUAL MEMORY..
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