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• COBOL programmers are destined to code COBOL for the rest of their lives, and thereafter.
• Quote #24 As an appointed member of the three man committee on the long range future of COBOL
  which committee was never disbanded, so I assume it still exists and which also never met, I have a few comments....
• Quote #282 "In May, 1959...it was decided that a [Common Business Language] should be developed and that three committees (short-range, intermediate-range, and long-range) were needed.
  It was the short-range group that developed COmmon Business Oritented Language (COBOL), which was meant to be only an interim language....
• We've picked COBOL as the language of choice.
• BCPL: Beats Cobol Programming Language
• LISP n. [from `LISt Processing language', but mythically from `Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses'] AI's mother tongue
  a language based on the ideas of (a) variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types, and (b) the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa....
• C++ -- The language in which only friends can access your private members.
• Real programmers like C because it's the only language they can spell
• COBOL: the only programming language in which you can write a letter home to your folks and reasonably expect it to compile and run without errors.