<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Which, of course, leads us directly to: <a href="http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/y2k/y2k_humor/Cobol.html">http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/y2k/y2k_humor/Cobol.html</a> .... :)<br><div><div>On 1 Sep 2015, at 09:29, Mike Meyer <<a href="mailto:mwm@mired.org">mwm@mired.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><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>
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