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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f7be1,f8bb08246869e998 X-Google-Attributes: gidf7be1,public X-Google-Thread: 11390f,f8bb08246869e998 X-Google-Attributes: gid11390f,public X-Google-Thread: 10259a,f8bb08246869e998 X-Google-Attributes: gid10259a,public X-Google-Thread: 1164ba,f8bb08246869e998 X-Google-Attributes: gid1164ba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,f8bb08246869e998 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,f8bb08246869e998 X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public X-Google-Thread: 109b1e,f8bb08246869e998 X-Google-Attributes: gid109b1e,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,f8bb08246869e998 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Language wars (6th September) Date: 1996/09/07 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 179164449 distribution: inet references: <50p9ir$cn4@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk> <967cc$112c6.322@NEWS> <32315033.63A1@kommsrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de> organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.basic,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.perl,comp.lang.pli,comp.lang.rexx,comp.lang.pascal,comp.lang.smalltalk Date: 1996-09-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "> 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 :-)