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- From: rma@mfltd.co.uk (Richard M. Ashton (x5422))
- Newsgroups: alt.cobol
- Subject: Re: cobol
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.132628.4634@mfltd.co.uk>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 13:26:28 GMT
- References: <1993Jan13.4605.763@dosgate> <1jm43fINN8rv@mirror.digex.com> <1993Jan26.225755.1547@sequent.com>
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- Organization: Micro Focus Ltd (UK)
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- In article <1993Jan26.225755.1547@sequent.com>, map@sequent.com (Michael Perry) writes:
- |> In article <1jm43fINN8rv@mirror.digex.com> tdarcos@digex.digex.com (Paul Robinson) writes:
- |> >alan.popow@canrem.com ("alan popow") writes:
- |> >: RE: Message 760 entered on Jan 12,93 by SINARRWB to ALL
- |> >: ===========================================================================
- |> >:
- |> >: In general I agree with the conclusions. Use them for their strengths, but
- |> >: I do have to wonder about the statement above. Never? Would you seriously
- |> >: consider writing an o/s in COBOL? How about a mouse, video, or any other
- |> >: kind of external driver?
- |> >
- |> >Someone once suggested the idea of writing a Compiler in COBOL, maybe even
- |> >the COBOL compiler itself! On the other hand, he may have been suggesting
- |> >that as the idea of punishment.
- |>
- |> Someone correct me if they know different, but it's been told to me
- |> that the MicroFocus Cobol compiler is written in Cobol.
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- This is indeed true.
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