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  3. From: drake+@cs.cmu.edu (Drake)
  4. Subject: Re: Re; Why COBOL for the 90's
  5. Message-ID: <C09oyv.HEt.1@cs.cmu.edu>
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  8. Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
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  11. Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 07:32:55 GMT
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  14. In article <C08o4v.BpL@csn.org> spolsky@teal.csn.org (Steven Polsky) writes:
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  16. >2) For business applications, COBOL gets the job done easily.  Its such
  17. >a simple language to work with. Scientific applications are another story.
  18. >However, if I need to generate a report, I'd rather use COBOL that C.
  19.  
  20. I agree.  However, I'm just starting out in COBOL; could I have a few
  21. examples where the advantage of COBOL is clearly shown?
  22.  
  23. >3) Object COBOL is coming!
  24.  
  25. This would be cool...any more specific information?
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