Re: Linux making headlines
Glenn Henshaw <[email protected]>
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On 15-Jul-09, at 9:40 PM, OddSox wrote: > > On Jul 15, 2009, at 9:14 PM, Charles MacDonald wrote: > >> OddSox wrote: >>> COBOL? >> >> _CO_mmon _B_usiness _O_riented _L_anguage, - invented by the US >> navy and friends, mostly used in transaction processing like your >> credit card bill. at the time the claim was it allowed programing >> to be done in business English. >> -- > > I was just expressing surprise - thought they cleaned out the last > of it with Y2K! > If you are interested, there is a COBOL based on GCC that runs on x86 (http://cobolforgcc.sourceforge.net/). -- Glenn Henshaw Ottawa, Canada Email: [email protected] -- OCLUG general discussion list [email protected] http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/oclug