On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 1:42 PM, M Farkas-Dyck <strake888@gmail.com> wrote:
On 31/08/2015, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> wrote:
> Of course not. There are application areas for which COBOL is clearly
> superior to - and hence more worthy than - Java. Or Haskell.

Name one.

When what you mean by 'file' is this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_set_%28IBM_mainframe%29
Cobol is unbeatable