Re: GROUP-USAGE (was Alternative COBOL "telco" source program

From: Warren Simmons (wsimmons5_at_optonline.net)
Date: 05/31/04 

Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 17:04:42 GMT

John W. Kennedy wrote:
> Warren Simmons wrote:
>
>> At the time the first spec of COBOL WAS about to be addressed by
>> the IBM OF THAT TIME, a Share Group was formed to do an end run on
>> COBOL. The chairman of the group, whose name and employer are not
>> available in my memory these days, called a meeting of several
>> IBM users to Cincinnati, OH. Purpose, review the PL/1 draft
>> specs to see if there were suggestions the invitees wanted to make
>> to make the spec more like COBOL. Or any other purpose you want
>> to invent.
>
>
> That story is grossly incompatible with the chronological facts.
Give your chronology. Perhaps I can adjust my story to fit them.

Warren Simmons

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