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Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: MIPS to offer COBOL
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Date: Sat, 24-Jan-87 16:07:45 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 24 16:07:45 1987
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Reply-To: tuba@ur-tut.UUCP (Jon Krueger)
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
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grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>C is nice, but pictures rival printf's when formating print
>lines and other boring things.

For my usual rates, I'll code you a picture(3) library that will look
and feel like the real thing, interface to your favorite 4GL, and run
at least as fast on a Unix-based 68000 as the COBOL code on an IBM
machine costing 10 times as much to buy, operate, and waste programmer
time on.  Or has somebody already done this?

					-- jon
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Jon Krueger   Department of Necessary Evil   University of Rochester
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