If anyone still cares about the original article, I will be glad to
translate it. It had some interesting points about COBOL's staying
power.

Bruce.
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-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Chuck Ryan
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 11:50 AM
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Subject: Re: OT: The 7 lives of Cobol (German Text now translated)

 


> Come on, lighten up and try not to pick on Europeans so much, 
> we should be friends.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John
> 

That would need to be a two way street. The US has been called every
name in the book by Europeans but if we respond we are being
unreasonable to our 'friends'. Or are we just having a cultural
misunderstanding when we take offense that someone spits in our face and
stabs us in the back? 

Comments are my own, not my employer's... Etc.

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