Well, there was that one bit about a "40-year-old system comprised of a COBOL mainframe and four other separate systems". But it's attributed to an anonymous "leader from Connecticut"; maybe the writer of the article flinched as badly as I did, but didn't feel obligated to say so.
(Once I learned that "comprise" is does not mean "compose", you see, I have to point it out wherever possible.) --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* If a man speaks in the forest and there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong? -George Carlin */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Pew, Curtis G Sent: Friday, April 10, 2020 17:17 I didn’t think this article was all that bad. The biggest error was in a quote from a politician, which I understood to be giving an example of some of the stupid stuff people (mostly politicians) are saying. I thought it could be clearer that by the “newest version” from 2014 they meant “the most recent ANSI standard.” Still, compared to some of the other nonsense articles I’ve seen this wasn’t that bad. --- On Apr 10, 2020, at 3:10 PM, Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a32095395/cobol-programming-language-covid-19/ > Spot the huge errors. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
