From: "John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne@...>
Date: 2006-10-12T10:55:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Rails

Rich Morin wrote:
> At 1:56 PM +0900 10/11/06, Hal Fulton wrote:
>> And let's not mention COBOL.
> 
> Although COBOL is not my favorite tool, I don't know of
> any arguably superior replacements for it (all things
> considered) in the environments where it is used.

PL/I and Ada '95. But the current ISO COBOL has finally lost most of 
COBOL's worst faults, if you include the new option that finally repairs 
the decades-old botching of the COMPUTE statement.

-- 
John W. Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
   -- Charles Williams.  "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"