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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).


Ed