- From: Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>
- Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:33:32 -0400
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- CC: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>, Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, Ross Singer <rossfsinger@gmail.com>, Robert Sanderson <azaroth42@gmail.com>, Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Pat, On 7/1/2010 11:14 PM, Pat Hayes wrote: > > <snip> > That is fine. Nobody mandates that your (or anyone else's) software > must be able to handle all cases of RDF. But to impose an irrational > limitation on a standard just because someone has spent a lot of money > is a very bad way to make progress, IMO. Although, I believe that > there are still people using COBOL, so you may have a point. > It was reported that the average American has nearly 4,000 interactions with COBOL based transaction systems per year. http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh060109-story03.html So, yes, there are people still using COBOL. Hope you are having a great day! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34 Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps) Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.net Twitter: patrickDurusau
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