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At 01:09 PM 11/23/04 -0500, Andrew Newton wrote:
>On Nov 23, 2004, at 12:59 PM, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
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>>That has been the cry of the COBOL lobby, the FORTRAN lobby and every group
>>that has promoted an obsolete legacy product as the future.
>
>COBOL failed because RPG-III was superior!
And RPG-III was superior because programmers didn't have to think about the
underlying processing algorithm. RPG had reduced the concern to what do I
do with this (these) record(s).
Ed