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Subject: Re: Computer langauges and software lif
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Date: 27 Apr 89 19:30:00 GMT
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Written  8:12 pm  Apr 25, 1989 by billwolf%hazel.c@hubcap.clemson.edu:
>  Personally, I'd like to see a good COBOL vs. Ada study, 
>  if anybody knows of one (or is interested in doing one)...

Why?  This would be like comparing a pterodactyl and a red-tailed hawk.  They 
both fly, but they're at different evolutionary stages.  A better study would 
be C++ vs. Ada, since they're both touted as being on the leading edge of PLs 
for software engineering.

Hal Render
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