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From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because...
Date: 1996/07/25
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Date: 1996-07-25T00:00:00+00:00
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Kevin D. Quitt wrote:
> 
> >Yes, but you don't know Ada (not even how to spell the name of the language!)
> >as has been clear from your previous posts. You probably also don't like
> >COBOL and know nothing about it.
> 
> I've studied both of them well enough to find ADA annoying (which is why I
> make it all caps) and COBOL outright disgusting.  Do *you* know what COBOL's
> equivalent of BASIC's "ON x GOTO..." is?

Oh, you mean

	evaluate x
	   when 1
	      ...
	   when 2
	      ...
	   ...
	end-evaluate

?
I don't find anything particularly disgusting about COBOL's `evaluate'
statement.

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