On Sunday 08 August 2010 21:34:04 Walt Mankowski wrote: > On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 04:33:14PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > So now it's official - "NASA Uses COBOL". Hope you enjoy it. > > Like any other big organization that's been using computers since the > 60s, it wouldn't surprise me at all if they still have some COBOL > systems in use. I don't see what this has to do with Perl though. >
Well, nothing except for the fact that the idea for that page evolved from a discussion about the Python site on this list (advocacy@perl.org) . Well, maybe I'm also parodying my own http://perl-begin.org/ a little on that page (and similar sites for modern languages). I mentioned the entire story in the original message which you've trimmed. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ "Humanity" - Parody of Modern Life - http://shlom.in/humanity God considered inflicting XSLT as the tenth plague of Egypt, but then decided against it because he thought it would be too evil. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
