I wrote COBOL for about 26 years off and on, I wrote it on the HP3000
and IBM.  I was at a HP conference in Seattle in 1986.  The HP guys said
that COBOL would be around for 20 years(They seemed disapointed).  

As a language COBOL has no scope issues as all memory is present upon
load of the program.  For those always fighting base and derived
classes, I can only pray for such a feature.

COBOL is a time tested language that has been enhancement over time.  

It resembled the English language, not that I was ever good at English.
I enjoyed misspelling variable names.  For those of you who have read my
code I misspelled the words in the comments too.  I still misspell words
in the comments in other languages.  

Now I chase thru curly braces to match them up.

I suspect COBOL will be running for a long time.  I just did a search on
dice for the word COBOL and 730 jobs turned up.  I still get called in
to someone's office and asked COBOL questions.

Happy Birthday
Kent


-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Happy 50th Cobol

In message <[log in to unmask]>, 
Michael Anderson <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Reminds me of the HP3000 World Wide Wake!
>
>http://www.cobolanniversary.com/the_conference.htm
>
>Mike.

Except this is a 50th birthday party and that was a funeral?

-- 
Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris

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