Bob, I'm not sure I agree.
My problem is that your view sanctions, implicltly encourages, usages like 'an Assembler' for an assembly-language program or 'a COBOL' for a COBOL program. The distinction between the entity, routine or table, and the language in which it is written is valuable, worth trying to preserve. --jg ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN