From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8987e290b05d0716 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: New Ada book ... References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 01:46:46 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.17.86 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1085622406 63.184.17.86 (Wed, 26 May 2004 18:46:46 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 18:46:46 PDT Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:870 Date: 2004-05-27T01:46:46+00:00 List-Id: Luke A. Guest wrote: > I understand using Ada, but why COBOL? And what was it? That's just > strange. It is strange. At the time (1983) I was sitting idle while a supplier corrected an error in their software that my software talked to. I had only COBOL and assembler available, so I chose COBOL. It was a version of Mancala/Wari/Awari. I may still have a listing lying around somewhere. -- Jeff Carter "Oh Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." Monty Python and the Holy Grail 24