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From: drd@siia.mv.com (David Dick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: OSF/Motif vs. NeWS vs. SUN/Open Windows vs. ?
Message-ID: <1990Feb28.222234.6508@siia.mv.com>
Date: 28 Feb 90 22:22:34 GMT
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bill@polygen.uucp (Bill Poitras) writes:

>If COBOL is so important, then tell why my University's
>College of Computer Science dropped COBOL as an offered course?

You are assuming that your University knows what is important in 
the marketplace, a shakey assumption, at best.

It's hard to see what place COBOL could have ever had in a true
computer "science" curriculum, anyway.

David Dick
Software Innovations, Inc. [the Software Moving Company(sm)]