<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:12 AM M Farkas-Dyck <<a href="mailto:strake888@gmail.com">strake888@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 31/08/2015, Mike Meyer <<a href="mailto:mwm@mired.org" target="_blank">mwm@mired.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Of course not. There are application areas for which COBOL is clearly<br>
> superior to - and hence more worthy than - Java. Or Haskell.<br>
Name one.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Maintaining ~50-year old government systems that are written in COBOL. </div></div></div>