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From: Nathan Walker <NTWALKER@******.SUNYGENESEE.CC.NY.US>
Subject: Re: Off topic: Windows 95
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 13:34:21 -0400
From: Paolo Marcucci <paolo@*********.IT>
>The 50% of the software running *today* in the world is written in COBOL.

Did you have to remind me...I *Hate* COBOL. If all these programs were
written in some other language, most systems would only need about half
the space they currently had.

Of course, it's the language I'm probably going to be writing in for the
rest of my life....*sigh* :(

>>>>>> Nate, the hopeless C++ lover.
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| - Joker |
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