Linux Journal's 2003 Readers' Choice Poll

[Preben Randhol]

Joe Klemmer <klemmerj at webtrek.com> wrote on 03/07/2003 (19:08) :
> 	No, I'm not kidding.  My favorite programming language is COBOL 2002. 
> The best implementation I've seen so far is Kobol from theKompany. 
> While most people think of the ASNI 1968 version when they hear the
> word, COBOL is very alive and vital and, with the new 2002 standard, a
> much better OOP language than C++ will ever hope to be.

Ok. Sorry I just thought you were make some subtle joke. Too many people
who have only some vague knowledge of Ada83 are. The current version of
Ada is Ada 95 and it is as you say (about COBOL) : much better general
purpose (including OO) language than C++ will ever hope to be. :-)

I haven't used COBOL myself but I have heard that it actually is far
better than the reputation. Especially later versions.

> 	OC, any actual coding I do at work is one of shell, perl or php.

perl *cringe*

Preben
-- 
"When Roman engineers built a bridge, they had to stand under it while
 the first legion  marched across.  If programmers today  worked under
 similar  ground rules,  they might well find  themselves getting much
 more interested in Ada!"                              -- Robert Dewar