From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Language wars (6th September)
Date: 1996/09/07
Date: 1996-09-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.842135953@schonberg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 32315033.63A1@kommsrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de
"> COBOL means
COmmon Badly Oriented Language, right ? ;-)"
You are allowed to make that joke if you are a COBOL expert, in which case
of course you are indeed joking, because you know the strengths of COBOL
as well as its weaknesses. if however, such a joke is a cover for ignorance,
then it's sad rather than funny. I am always amazed in the programming
language field how often people are willing to have opinions about languages
they know nothing about, often copying their ideas from others equally
misinformed, a true case of the blind leading the blind :-)
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-09-06 0:00 Language wars (6th September) Roy Gardiner
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Solomon Taibi
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Frank Derichsweiler
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Rony.Flatscher
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Roy Gardiner
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Ian Collier
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-11 0:00 ` Ian Collier
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Daniel P Hudson
[not found] ` <511qn6$407i@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>
1996-09-10 0:00 ` David Whiteman
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