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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: Re^4: OSF/Motif vs. NeWS vs. SUN/Open Windows vs. ?
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Date: 21 Feb 90 14:58:49 GMT
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In article <8450001@hpfcdc.HP.COM> mhn@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Mark Notess) writes:
> Bill Buxton predicted a couple years ago that the Mac interface would
> become the COBOL of the 1990s.  Interesting ...

	And what does that mean?  If I had to define COBOL, I'd say it is
an ancient, horrible, computer language which computer science types sneer
at, deride, and use as the punch line of endless jokes, yet is probably one
of the most commercially important languages used today.
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