Thus it was written in the epistle of Shawn Gordon,
> >
> > Also Perl, Pascal and Fortran (as well as numerous other languages
> > which are
> > not on the 3000).  COBOL and Business Basic projects are both underway
> > at GNU.
> >
> oh there are a zillion languages guile, scheme, camel, eifel, rebol,
> etc.,etc., but if you are trying to be in the main stream then you need
> to focus on what people are using (and yes I left Perl off by mistake,

you're forgiven :-)

> but I don't think i would build an application system in Perl).

your loss ;-).

> i've watched the Tiny COBOL project (if that is the one you are
> referring to),

It wasn't.  I was talking about GNU COBOL and Business Basic:

http://www.gnu.org/software/cobol/cobol.html
http://probasic.sourceforge.net/

>                but they've all been pretty stagnat whatever their
> current state is.  This is the main problem with fringe OSS projects,
> people loose interest and walk away and they never get finished.  if
> they are popular enough to have built critical mass, then they will
> typically be kept going.

Agreed.  In particular, COBOL seems a difficult one because in general, the
folks who want COBOL are not the same folks who get excited about writing
compilers.

Ted
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