@Shortjob said:
really don't like HTTP. Why couldn't we establish a nicer protocol for sending text?
There is gopher protocol, which is better if all you need to do is send text to the client based on a selector string. And for other uses there are other protocols, such as SMTP, POP3, Telnet, but sometimes HTTP is good for some things, too, but not everything. They tend to use HTTP for a lot of things these days though, and I think that is not quite the best way to do so! And, yes 3270 might be a better way for some things, even.
Last term we had IBM over for a presentation and they're pretty ambitious about teaching the young folks old languages, COBOL being their first choice.
COBOL is for common business oriented language, so perhaps some people like to use it for common business function. (I don't find it necessary because I can write my own instead; but some people can have different opinion, please.)
And what's wrong with Perl? I'd take that over C any time.
I use C any time. Actually, I usually use Enhanced CWEB, which allows your program to have a table of contents and index, and allows including TeX codes as well in the file, also writing codes in any order, and writing codes for code generation (it has a C interpreter built-in so that you can write codes to generate the other codes, if you want to), and more....