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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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