| From: | Stefan Struck <struck@******.INFORMATIK.UNI-BONN.DE> |
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| Subject: | Re: Off topic: Windows 95 |
| Date: | Mon, 4 Sep 1995 09:26:17 +0200 |
> Stefan> Don't say that evil word with C. I hate this "language" and I
> Stefan> know C. good. Long story, not told here. Writing whole sentences
> Stefan> just to give a variable a value isn't just my style.
>
> Well, think about it. What language would you use to write code for
> manipulation of tremendously huge databases, C or COBOL? I'd use COBOL
> because, for all of it's initial verbosity it's still the most concise
> language in the world for manipulating huge database structures. And
> that's the 50% Paolo is talking about.
>
Yes, I now. Once upon a time I did Cobol programming on a IBM mainframe,
I think it was a 3070 or something like that. I think the most important
think is that the databases are large and old (in relation to the age
of computer science), during my education I have to program cobol, fortran
(the old stuff) and PL1, these were the good (bad) old times.
But you're right, rat, Cobol isn't that bad (if you got a generator to do
most of the work 8), but I still doesn't like it.
bye,
Stefan
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