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>>>Spoken like a true COBOL programmer ;) I know, I used to be one.
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>>actually, i've never done anything in cobol. in college, most everyone took cobol so they could assure themselves a job when they graduated. i thought i'd rather starve than suffer through that.
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>The small college I went to only had COBOL, ForTran, and SPSS. Did a lot of COBOL for many years, including 1 app with a single digit numeric year (10 years, not 100). I've seen good and bad COBOL, good and bad Clipper, and so far, only good VFP!!

i've seen some bad vfp, but most of it has been by bad clipper programmers i've had to work with...