Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> COBOL wasn't bad for its time. It's wordy because everything is line 
> oriented, and it was supposed to be easy for non-programmers to read, 
> and a 32K machine with 4 meg of disk space and milisecond cycle times 
> was a high-end mainframe.

  I always got the impression that COBOL was the "BASIC" of the 70's,
while all real programmers used Fortran. (Heck, even nowadays some old
gurus state that real programmers use Fortran.)

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                                                          - Warp

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