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From: billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 )
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Subject: Re: COBOL (Was: Modernizing Ada; now moving to comp.lang.misc)
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Date: 15 Oct 89 17:44:42 GMT
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>From ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe):
> COBOL has changed *dramatically* with time.  Successive COBOL standards
> have not merely added new things (like nested programs, terminators on
> compound statements, new statements) but have also discarded old things
> (like the ALTER statement).  

   Oh, come on.  How about recursion?  How about generics?  How about
   multitasking?  Are you seriously suggesting that COBOL has made more
   than a shabby pretense of keeping up with the technology of software
   engineering?  These are band-aids, which totally disregard the many
   fundamental problems that COBOL has been steadfastly ignoring for decades.  

   (Followups to comp.lang.misc...)

   
   Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu