Re: Get current (was: Infinite Loops and Explicit Exits

"Robert Wagner" <spamblocker-robert@wagner.net> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 06:25:02 GMT, "William M. Klein"
> <wmklein@nospam.netcom.com> wrote:
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> Sorry. I thought the draft was close enough. Perhaps I will ante up.
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Listen.

Hear that grumbling murmur? That's the members of CODASYL (the people who
sat down in 1959 and ended up giving us COBOL) spinning in their graves.

They put aside their commercial differences and placed the language in the
public domain so it would be free to all.

Up until very recently all COBOL manuals carried a page stating that, and
acknowledging the work and the intentions of the Conference On DAta SYstems
Languages (1959)

Now it costs $18 to see a draft, $200 to buy a final copy, and the people
who do the work either pay for that privelege themselves, or are sponsored
by their companies. And ANSI is a non-profit organisation so they don't even
pay tax on it...(apropos my post in response to Michael about the money
going round...)

But I'm just a trouble maker, so ignore this post...

Pete.