Re: working storage values

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:11:28 +0000 (UTC), docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx () wrote:

In article <6969359c-00e5-4485-9e94-2e0e0acb1ee1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Richard <riplin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Seeing an example like that, no wonder Cobol is dying.

Some see examples like that every working day on systems that are still
hugely profitable to the companies that run them... a curious sort of
death, aye.

Mainframe systems are hugely EXPENSIVE to the companies that run them. They are hugely
profitable to IBM.

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