sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) (11/20/89)
About all major programming languages have their own newsgroup, but Cobol has not. Yet is the Cobol probably the most common language used in the software industry. The reason that Cobol doesn't have a newsgroup are quite obvious. Usenet has its roots in technical environments where Cobol is little used. But times are changing. Usenet are spreading into administrative environments. And technical and administrative are getting closer to each other. Myself, an electrical engineer, had to learn some Cobol for my current project. And, undoubtedly the number of Cobol articles in comp.lang.misc are increasing. OK, it's no deluge of Cobol articles, but what about it? According the guidelines I calling for discussion now, and will call for votes (unless I'm severely discouraged) December 3rd and close the vote on Christmas Eve. Cobol is not dead, it just smells funny. -- Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se