[Info-vax] General Availability of 9.2 for x86-64

[Scott Dorsey]

Johnny Billquist  <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>So we have people here who blame academia for language standards. We 
>have people who blame academia for the lack of interest in Cobol. I'm 
>sortof amazed by the ignorance. Cobol was ridiculed by almost everyone 
>long before OO had even been invented. The fact there are still a lot of 
>software around written in Cobol don't make it a good language, or a 
>language that makes sense to have in any curriculum.

The thing about COBOL is that it's a data description language and a 
programming language all wrapped up together.  There aren't very many
other systems like that.  Datapoint tried one, DEC sort of tried one,
but there weren't many attempts to replace it and none of them really
caught on.  RPGII kind of caught on for a little while.
--scott


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