RE: [sqr-users] Revenge of the mainframe (aka comp3)

["Peter Clark" <PGCLARK@vac-acc.gc.ca>]

>The reason that is plan B is that I have always opined that SQR could do 
>*anything* up to and including destroying and creating matter, so if there 
>is a way to accomplish what I want without relying on archaic languages, I 
>would like to find it.

COBOL may be "archaic" (as you refer to it) but that just means that it is good 
enough to have withstood the test of time (name me another programming language 
that has been around for nearly 50 years, is available on just about any 
platform and has been able to evolve with the times). In fact, it does several 
things better than SQR (e.g. arrays or processing ASCII as easily as it does 
EBCDIC), and given its longevity so far will probably be still around when 
people are calling SQR an archaic language, so let's have a little respect, 
huh? :-)


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