Have to give you that one, James. COBOL is not a minor language either. In
fact, until 2 years ago, it was the predominate programming language. (Now
VB is) but it is still in wide use.
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Arvin Meyer
onsite_at_esinet.net
James Petts wrote in message <373ad12d.281832263_at_right.celltech>...
>On Wed, 12 May 1999 09:16:05 -0400, "Abbot Cooper"
><cooper_NoSpam_ab_at_mediaone.net> wrote:
>
>>Why is
>>it that COBOL and Fortran are such minor languages now?
>
>Fortran is most certainly not a minor language in science and
>engineering. It is *by far and away* the most common language
>used for physical and numeric simulation code.
>
>James Petts
Received on Thu May 13 1999 - 09:34:47 CDT
