On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:47:27 -0500, Jim Elliott, IBM <jim_elli...@ca.ibm.com> wrote:
>However, the canard about COBOL is one that always bothers me. A year or two >ago the Toronto Star had an article about COBOL being a "deal language". >COBOL could paraphrase Mark Twain, "The reports of my death have been >greatly exaggerated.". IMHO, there is probably more business server >application code written in COBOL than any other language still, and I see >no reason for that to change. > >Jim > Oops, typo above. I meant to say "DEAD language" not deal language. Jim ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html