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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
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Subject: Re: What's really wrong with COBOL?
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Date: 24 Mar 90 15:43:31 GMT
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billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 ) babbles:
>   There is also multitasking -- the ability to express the idea of 
>   objects which do their work in parallel.
[...]
>   it is necessary to implement it using what is known as "recursion". 
>   This is what happens when a procedure or function calls itself
[...]
>   ...an "abstract data type" ... is a style by
>   which one identifies and characterizes a real-world object through
>   a description of the operations which can be done with that object,

What is this, a review of a freshman course in CS?  Have you resorted
to believing that all people who use cobol are "common folk, people of
the land (you know, morons)"?

Assume, for a change, that we're all professionals here and don't need
trivial concepts described, especially inaccurately.

jim frost
saber software
jimf@saber.com