On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Tim Shoppa wrote:
While I can name a couple of odd areas that COBOL made
it into
(believe it or not, compilers were written in COBOL) and Smalltalk
lives on in a few odd corners completely unrelated to language
research, those "caught ons" are minor compared to the areas
that Pascal did succeed at.
I took a class taught by a professor who would constantly talk about a new
form of COBOL coming soon called COOL for COBOL Object Oriented Language.
Does anyone here know what this is/was?
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at
cs.csubak.edu
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