After Donna, Ken Sletton comments

>Donna comes up with a real-world observation:

>> wanna grow old fast?  try writing/supporting an application
>> written in c.  *my opinions, guys!*            - d

>From the admittedly little I've seen of C, I tend to agree:  Leave
>the bit-twiddling and pointer management to experts like Mark
>Klein, et. al.....  I'm gonna try and concentrate on Java as my
>next language;  and particularly Java/iX.  Just from what I've
>seen of the TurboIMAGE class library that Mike Yawn & Co.
>have put together, I'm impressed;  almost reminds me of
>Transact......       :-)

>Ken Sletten

And now COBOL programmers have the opportunity of writing in COBOL and
deploying in Java via new products such as PerCobol. The new enhancements
to COBOL in the next standard added to a deployment capability in Java (on
the HP3000 or any other platform) makes for a very interesting development
environment.

Jeanette Nutsford
Interex SIGCOBOL Chairman
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