RE: Status of MARID WG?

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From: [email protected] on behalf of [email protected]
Sent: Tue 11/23/2004 4:32 PM
To: Andrew Newton
Cc: 'IETF MARID WG'
Subject: Re: Status of MARID WG?
 

At 01:09 PM 11/23/04 -0500, Andrew Newton wrote:

>On Nov 23, 2004, at 12:59 PM, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
>
>>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).

Summed up in 3 words, "...its DEAD Jim..."

Michael Weiner