Given the solidity of the MANMAN application over the years, they seem
to have done a fine job on the platform.

While others died or fell into obscurity.

Tracy Johnson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of James B. Byrne
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 9:42 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] (PLUG) Archiving and Migration of 
> HP3000 ManMan data
> 
> On Thu, January 20, 2011 09:25, Chuck Trites wrote:
> > Not sure what you mean by COBOL written in FORTRAN?
> >
> 
> It is a play on the words of an old bromide: "You can write FORTRAN
> in any Language."
> 
> The FORTRAN language is really not suited to implementing a business
> application like MANMAN but that was what the authors evidently felt
> most comfortable with.  Either that, or they could not afford HP's
> COBOL licence.  Or, perhaps HP COBOL simply did not work reliably,
> as I discovered the hard way at NorTel in the early 80s.
> 
> In any case, MANMAN's authors had to create, in FORTRAN, all of the
> structures provided directly in COBOL.
>

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