RE: COBOL VS RPG

["Leland, David" <dleland@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: COBOL VS RPG

Before anyone gets upse, the article about dumping support for COBOL was a joke in AS/400 Technology Showcase.  The author also predicted that IBM would develop a Pokemon game for the AS/400.

Dave

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From: Al Barsa, Jr. [mailto:barsa2@ibm.net]
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 3:01 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: COBOL VS RPG

At 11:21 AM 01/03/2000 -0500, you wrote:

>I read a article this weekend while trying to stay awake where the author
>predicted that IBM would dump support for COBOL on the 400...Not sure if
>he was joking or if he's been sucking that bong just a bit tooo hard....:)
I know of no such plans, they are simply not that stupid.

They are going to piss off enough people when they drop support for
OfficeVision.

Al

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