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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
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Subject: Re: Comp.lang.cobol failed
Message-ID: <390@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 90 01:02:44 GMT
References: <604@enea.se> <9L=:6A+@splut.conmicro.com>
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In article <9L=:6A+@splut.conmicro.com> jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) writes:

| Unless I get overwhelming objections, I will create the group next
| Wednesday, 10 January 1990. 

  COBOL is the revenge of some witch burned in Salem, or a communist
plot, the work of the devil, or a secret plan by space creatures. COCOL
is a loathsome reciprocal of APL, the verbosity of one heading for zero
as the other passes infinity. It's the only language in which "hello
world" is longer in source than in executable, even after loading 47
libraries and runtime features.

  The above is not an objection, just an opinion. Create it. See if I
care. I'll even carry it here and force people to read it before they
can subscribe to alt.sex.
-- 
	bill davidsen - sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
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"Getting old is bad, but it beats the hell out of the alternative" -anon