Re: Cobol work?

On 17 Oct 2005 15:45:23 GMT, mwojcik@xxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Wojcik)
wrote:

>
>In article <11l5em9nkca7318@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "HeyBub" <heybubNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> The difference between COBOL programming and C++ is the difference
>> between Beethoven and Bojangles.
>
>This is patently absurd. Lousy software can be written in any
>language. I've seen plenty of COBOL code that was utter dreck.

Sure - so have we all.
More to the point, have you seen any C++ code that was legible?
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Ian
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