Just for my curiosity: why don't you use capital letters? It seams to me that this becomes more and more popular on Internet and I don't really understand why.

It's kind of difficult to read the text written like that...

Vlad

>listen young whipper snapper, do not make me hit you with my cane. for better or worst, COBOL will be here until you start collecting social security (which i think is now set somewhere at age 68 for your age group). there is too much big corporate $$$ invested in it. the IBM mainframe software has the support staff and the utilities necessary to run large corporate applications. of course as a percent of total software written, it is becoming a smaller and smaller percentage. there are just so many more languages. but there is still a ton of cobol code being written everyday - hell you NEED a ton just to write a report. ok, one last rap with the cane. it seems to me that COBOL's future is much more secure than FoxPro's. not that COBOL is a better language. but hey, life is not always fair. time to go. there is a rerun of the golden girls on the boob tube. that betty white is such a sketch.
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>have a good weekend
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>brenda