[Nolug] Ron's sig

OK, Ron, I'll bite: How are you 4 degrees from Vlad Putin?
Dave Prentice
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
To: NOLUG ML <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Nolug] Evo and Outlook

>On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 09:32, Judson Lester wrote:
>> On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 04:07 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 09:43, Judson Lester wrote:
>> >> On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 06:11 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 14:43, rbstrickland@cox.net wrote:
>[snip]
>> >>
>> >> Blah. COBOL is a ledger book with an attitude.
>> >
>> > Bull.
>> >
>> > It is a language tuned to a record-oriented paradigm (and that
>> > means records in all their forms, including embedded variable
>> > length arrays), but so what? Many things in commerce have that
>> > orientation. That's why COBOL-85 is so damned useful.
>> >
>> > When I was in college, the way I learned COBOL-74 made everyone
>> > in the classroom *despise* it, because it made us go through
>> > such incredible contortions to avoid GOTO (Dijkstra's evil
>> > legacy) in a language that doesn't have ENDIF or DO-WHILE.
>>
>> Okay, I think I just found out that I'm the far left as far as
>> programming paradigms go here. It seems really bizarre to see
another
>> proponent of self-documenting code call "goto considered harmful"
>> "Dijkstra's evil legacy."
>
>A segment of the "computing community" took "goto considered harmful"
>and tried to contort COBOL-74 into a philosophy for which it was
>never meant to fit, thus destroying COBOL in the eyes of 30 years
>of students. Besides, elitist CS students and professors think
>that commerce is beneath them.
>
>[snip]
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>| 4 degrees from Vladimir Putin
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