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Subject: Re: MIPS to offer COBOL
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Date: Sat, 24-Jan-87 12:53:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 24 12:53:00 1987
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>/* Written  1:18 am  Jan 22, 1987 by grr@cbmvax.UUCP in ccvaxa:comp.arch */
>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?

How about PL/1?

>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.

Talking about which - has anybody got a picture formatting package
for C? Pictures are damned nice at times. It could probably be
wired into printf formats like this:

    printf("%P[$$$,$$$,$$$,$$9.99]",number);

Andy "Krazy" Glew. Gould CSD-Urbana.    USEnet:  ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!aglew
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