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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: COBOL compilers for Amigas?
Message-ID: <6489@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 89 17:00:08 GMT
References: <10042@megaron.arizona.edu>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <10042@megaron.arizona.edu>, bakken@arizona.edu (Dave Bakken) says:
> Summary: try harder next year

> In article <4-1-1989@cmbvax.UUCP>, daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>             ^^^
>> Does anybody know of a good COBOL compiler for Amiga's?  COBOL-74 would
>> be acceptable if necessary.

>> I'm tired of boinging and have decided to devote the rest of
>> my life to accounting systems...

> I suspect few people fell for this for more than a couple milliseconds,
> Dave.  You'll have to find something more plausible next year!

But it's trickier than it looks.  I didn't write it.  If _I_ were giving up
this business, it certainly wouldn't be to write accounting systems.  I mean,
COBOL is one of the few languages I don't even slightly know.  No, if I were
looking for an alternate career, I think I'd become a beach bum.  Just lie
under a palm tree all day, listening to the sounds of the surf, and the gulls,
and Jimmy Buffett on a cheap cassette player, drinking Mount Gay Barbados 
Eclipse Rum all day.....
-- 
Dave Haynie  "The 32 Bit Guy"     Commodore-Amiga  "The Crew That Never Rests"
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              Amiga -- It's not just a job, it's an obsession