Cobol - Re: US Presidents; an outside view WAS: Any comments? (Evolution

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Richard

2006-04-26, 6:55 pm

Howard Brazee wrote:

> A used CoBOL manual is much more valuable than one that just takes up
> space.

It may be its value that is determining its usage, not the other way
around.

> A book that I paid $20 for, and read, and then sold for $10 has given
> me my $20 value, and then gave somebody else a $10 value. I still
> have my worth from that book even though I no longer have the book.

That doesn't make the book more valuable. You got your $10 value from
reading it and that reduced its value down to the $10 you sold it for.

In the meantime the forest that supplied the paper and the stream that
took the pulp mill's waste and the oil reserves that supplied the
energy and the air that took the exhaust all were reduced in value by
some small amount.

Sure, it looks like a gain when you only use one eye to look at it.

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