Re: FW: COBOL on the Rise?

2010-10-28 Thread Ed Gould
, 10/27/10, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote: From: Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net Subject: Re: FW: COBOL on the Rise? To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 11:52 AM On 27 October 2010 09:42, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: Interesting post and URL below

FW: COBOL on the Rise?

2010-10-27 Thread McKown, John
Interesting post and URL below from another forum. Full URL is: http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2010/10/which-programming-languages-ar.php?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb%2Fhack+%28ReadWriteHack%29 The surprise to me is Erlang. I've read up on it. I found

Re: FW: COBOL on the Rise?

2010-10-27 Thread Howard Brazee
On 27 Oct 2010 09:52:58 -0700, t...@harminc.net (Tony Harminc) wrote: Interesting that Erlang and Pascal are both the names of programming languages, and of units of measure. Are there other languages with the same naming oddity? Is there e.g. a Newton language? A Basic measurement? Hourglass?