Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys

[Raymond Wiker]

> On 19 Mar 2017, at 16:14 , Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> On Mar 19, 2017, at 11:04 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> That's because, unlike the COBOL Professionals, the Fortran people drank from
>> the OO KoolAid.
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> Speaking of OO and COBOL, a colleage of mine has a button with the text "ADD 1 TO COBOL".
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> 	paul
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Given that C++ is the object-oriented descendant of C, one might expect object-oriented COBOL to be named "ADD 1 TO COBOL". In my opinion, the object-oriented successor to COBOL is called Java - it's similarly verbose, and like COBOL, originally intended for average, fungible programmers.