I think the New York Times reporter (and editor?) was probably not familiar with the reputation of the person he was interviewing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Farber Regards Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Co. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Wayne Driscoll Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 9:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: California's COBOL payroll system And people wonder why the Education system in this country is a mess? With idiots like teaching no wonder. All the COBOL programmers retired "centuries ago" yet there are still (some) schools teaching COBOL. I guess mathematics and logic are no longer required to become a Computer Science Professor, since COBOL hasn't even existed for one century, let alone multiple. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
