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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 00:58:24 +0100
From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@user1.uni-duisburg.de>
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Martin Dowie wrote:
> xpyttl wrote:
> 
>> Then there are the C++ guys who view Ada as a sort of military
>> style Cobol.
> 
> 
> COBOL _was_ military...well Navy at least :-)

The inventor of COBOL reports basket ball as a major
influence (passing indiretly). And the effect of
private account balancing on the choice of number
systems (Oops, summed the spendings in octal...).


Georg