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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because...
Date: 1996/07/22
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Kevin said

"A friend of mine is working on Object-oriented COBOL.  The truly terrifying
thing is that it's not a joke."


:-)

so, I was right, you don't like COBOL either, and apparently you 
particularly don't like Object-oriented COBOL. I guess you know nothing
about either, and the unknown terrifies you.

(my smiley above is because I predicted your reaction to COBOL before
reading this post!)

In fact the design of object oriented COBOL, the preliminary work on which
Ken Belcher worked [Ken was one of the team of three, including me that
did he original Realia COBOL implementation], is really quite interesting.
Definitely worth understanding if you are interested in language design
and seeing what is going on in some other areas.