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COBOL is a viciously verbose language which is unfortunately in wide 
use, if only because there are so many legacy apps which must be maintained. 

To get a taste for it, you could download Kobol from thecompany.com.
If you have used COBOL in the past, then just looking at a few screenshots 
will be enough to remind you why you don't want to ever have to use it 
again :)

Irv




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