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From: jl3j+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Robert Leavitt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: COBOL -> C converter
Message-ID: <sXQJHoy00VQa02-Goq@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 4 Nov 88 06:57:56 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon
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>However you slice it, COBOL->C conversion still smells like baloney to me!


That's dandy.  And you ARE rigth that converting COBOL to any Algol descended
language may be kludgy, but...

Is is the Algol-based language's fault?  Or is it COBOL's fault?

Points to ponder...

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