> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bruce Hewson
>
> Hello all,
>
> I expect Bill will be disappointed to read the questions
> regarding COBOL.
>
>
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,18288578%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E
,00.html
>
"Family First Senator Steve Fielding said the tax project "made a lot of
sense, and it's obviously needed", but he was putting the Tax Office on
notice: "I still have some concerns that it's now 2006, yet this is based on
a 1980s-type design."
I didn't see any reservations expressed about using millennia-old arithmetic
in either the "ancient" or "modern" tax packages. And most of us drive
automobiles that are substantially based on a 19th-century-type design....
"Good" to see that the US doesn't have a monopoly on "brilliant"
legislators.
-jc-
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