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To: E.H.F. who wrote (1288)	3/25/1998 9:41:00 PM
From: David Eddy	Read Replies (1) of 9818

E.H.F The real culprit is COBOL, an old language that's been around forever and is still in use by many businesses. Sorry, I can't leave such disinformation unchallenged. COBOL is no more guilty than any other language. There is no computer language in this universe that forces you to use it correctly. There are 30 year old COBOL systems that have been Y2Kok since their creation. There are JAVA applets being written today that will fail. The culprit is management that looked the other way when systems got seriously complex. Management has been furiously building this 1,000 room castle... and guess what? There's no sinking fund & we need to replace all the plumbing. The size of the pipes has nothing to do with it. - David

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