Python and COBOL

[François Pinard]

[jurgen.defurne at philips.com]

> To summarize and put my answers in perspective, I do like COBOL, and it
> does excel for business programs.  But it is a language from the dawn of
> ages, and I do not think that it should be used as an example for more
> recent programming languages.

Your reply looks almost serious.  You understood that my whole message had
a big smiley in its background!  I never seriously suggested that Python
takes COBOL as a model.  I was merely kidding with my Python friends :-).

                                Keep happy, all!

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard