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To: JDRogers who wrote (13635)	1/24/1999 1:22:00 PM
From: TEDennis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13949

JDR: Nice ... investigative reporters ... yeah, right. As far as I know, there aren't ANY programs written in COBAL. It never gained popularity, like its predecessor language (COBOL) did with its over 80 Billion lines of code and umpteen compiler versions. I think the transition from COBOL to COBAL would have been smoother if the COBAL designers hadn't been so darned finicky. Requiring programmers to code with a quill pen was just a bit too much, don't you think? TED