Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site hoqam.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!hoqam!twb From: twb@hoqam.UUCP (BEATTIE) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: COBOL anecdotes wanted Message-ID: <166@hoqam.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 08:55:50 EDT Article-I.D.: hoqam.166 Posted: Fri Jul 12 08:55:50 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 11:35:59 EDT References: <2803@pesnta.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel Lines: 27 > C...C....COBOL ?!?!?!?!? > You mean.... > > Cumbersome > Obsolote > Batch > Oriented > Language > > ............no sig................. I believe it was E.W. Dijkstra in 1982 who said: "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be considered as a criminal offence" Tom. ..!{ihnp4|hou2g|allegra|mhuxh}!hoqam!twb And now for something completely different: PIYAN (pi' an) - n. (acronym: "Plus If You Act Now") Any miscellaneous item thrown in on a late night television ad.