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From: levy@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Daniel R. Levy)
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Subject: Re: Comp.lang.cobol failed
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Date: 11 Jan 90 05:37:45 GMT
References: <604@enea.se> <9L=:6A+@splut.conmicro.com> <390@sixhub.UUCP>
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In article <390@sixhub.UUCP>, davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
>   COBOL is the revenge of some witch burned in Salem ...
> the work of the devil ...

I KNEW IT!  Even the very name is satanic, deriving from the German _kobold_
("goblin").


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Daniel R. Levy                     >>> God: just say "yes" <<<
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