• To: "'Ken North'" <kennorth@s...>,"'XML Developers List'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: XML moves COBOL into the .NET and J2EE arenas
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 09:28:32 +0100
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> 
> Some people chose COBOL but more often it was simply a mandate. 

I spent six months enhancing the schema compiler for a database product,
which was about 25K lines of COBOL. Never again! (For that matter, never
again do I want the job of trying to explain to a technically illiterate
project manager why a programming language that's perfectly good at one job
might not be the best choice for something completely different).

People said they could tell I wasn't a real COBOL programmer because I wrote
things like 

COMPUTE X = 0.

instead of

MOVE 0 TO X.

Michael Kay

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