Of course... If Cobol is like walking, I should point out that you can't drive everywhere. i.e. the purpose of COBOL is to walk where you have to walk. It is damn expensive to make roads everywhere... To continue the analogy.

Also walking requires different skill than driving. Like uhm... you don't need a license to walk ! .... That means also that you won't spend time walking to the wrong place. You have a goal. When you drive it isn't that expensive when it comes to time when you drive wrong. And so on...

As for Dinosaurs vs. Mammals... There are a few dinosaurs left... the crocodiles are descendents from the dinosaurs. They are quite succsefull predators aren't they?

In reply to RE: RE: Intended use and unintended use. An insight into design. (Continued) by JanneVee
in thread Intended use and unintended use. An insight into design. by JanneVee

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.