Re: Useful Oracle books - C.J. Date theory vs. practicality

On 05/28/2004 05:01:29 PM, "Powell, Mark D" wrote:
> Is your dislike of COBOL really a problem with the language or with the way
> people wrote the programs you had to work with?  I used to like the
> language.

It's a problem with the language, and its appalling verbosity. Being strong and 
silent type,
I intensely dislike such verbosity. Also, I don't particularly like fixed 
format languages. 
I like the mess I can create with perl and PHP. COBOL compared to perl is the 
same thing as 
a boot camp compared to a party. I prefer partying to marching & shooting. The 
point of my post
was not about COBOL, you caught me by surprise.

-- 
Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA



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