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From: Steve Horne <steve.horne1@bridge.bst.bls.com>
Subject: Re: Partners Wanted
Date: 1999/07/13
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Andrew Koenig wrote:
> 
> Cobol.  Perfectly understandable.  Yeah, right.
> 

The first program I ever had to maintain was chock full of "ALTER GOTO"
statements.

Has anyone ever been exposed to that language atrocity?  Simple and
understandable?  Absolutely not.

-Steve