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Re: Protos Suggestions
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Joan Entwistle <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 7 Feb 2002 18:57:23 -0500
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Write wrapper routines that call Image, then when you migrate, you just
have to rewrite the wrapper routines.



Tom Hula wrote:


> And Protos, while it does generate Cobol, is not a Cobol generator.
> It is more like a 4GL programming tool.

That's an interesting distinction.

Huh?

I've used Protos extensively, and I'd call it a COBOL generator.  Most of
the Protos calls are pretty small wrappers around Image calls; they
shouldn't be that hard to replace.

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