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From: twb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (thomas.w.beattie)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: COBOL as a Programming Language
Message-ID: <391@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 3 May 89 14:30:20 GMT
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In article <1120@psueea.UUCP> warren@jove.cs.pdx.edu (Warren Harrison) writes:
>To: N43WF801@NCSUVM.BITNET
>Subject: Re: Info. on Marketing SW Abroad?
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.atari.st
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This errant posting reminded me of the following quotation:

     "The use of COBOL cripples the mind;
     its teaching should, therefore,
     be regarded as a criminal offence."
                       -E. W. Dijkstra (1982)

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Tom Beattie
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