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From: spectre@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU (Joseph D. Morrison)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: The GNU Manifesto
Message-ID: <3474@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Date: 29 Jan 88 00:52:48 GMT
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Reply-To: spectre@mit-vax.UUCP (Joseph D. Morrison)
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In article <6472@cisunx.UUCP> wpnst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Bill 'Deus' Nixon) writes:
>In article <2576@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> langz@athena.mit.edu (Lang Zerner) writes:

>>What's more, COBOL is without doubt the best language available for writing
>>mainframe business applications.  Just look around you.  There are more
>>mainframe business applications written in COBOL than in perhaps any other high
>>level language.  And more mainframe software maintenance engineers use COBOL
>>than any other HLL.

>COBOL is the best ?  I won't say anything about that.  Could start yet
>another holy war.

Lang's article is quoted slightly out of context here... He was being
sarcastic!  He was refuting the argument that "PCs are great for word
processing because lots of people use them".

Now that I'm posting, I think I'll put my two cents in! I use TeX and
LaTeX for almost all of my text processing, and I think lots of other
people use those packages too.

I really don't care if I'm running it on a VAX, an IBM PC, a Macintosh
or a Symbolics 3600. (The IBM-PC keyboard has a crumby layout, but I
get used to it.)

I'm a Mac fan, and disapprove of IBM-PCs as much as any politically correct
computer science person :-) :-) :-) :-), but one must admit, in terms
of typeset pages per minute per dollar, the IBM-PC beats everything else...

        Joe Morrison
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