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| > From "Terry O'Brien
| > Jim's note reminded me that the HP3000 enjoyed heavy penetration in
| > schools and colleges. In many schools, it was also used to teach
| > computer science and programming.
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FROM: Steve Weisbrod
| One of our clients is a county school system in Maryland that currently
| uses a Series 70 to teach Cobol programming in their High Schools (I
think
| in the Voc Ed schools).
| I bet all those college professors who, over the past years, have been
| preaching "no use for cobol... it's all 'object oriented' now" are
| wondering how come there's still such a demand for cobol code benders.
If I was teaching COBOL I would want to teach it on a object oriented COBOL
compiler.
As I understand it there are no OO COBOLs compilers available on the '3000;
the systems
available are ** interpreters **. Furthermore these interpreted systems
are available on PCs (with superior development environments) making
homework alot easier for students.
Heavy COBOL types I know want a OO COBOL on the HP 3000. As a MANMAN
specialist I am frustrated with HP Fortran which doesn't even support
macros. I notice that I try to avoid programming on the '3000 when I can
write the program on my PC because of the language issue. Bottom line is
that the language and developer environment situation on our beloved
platform is disappointing.
- Cortlandt Wilson
Cortlandt Software
(650) 966-8555
www.netcom.com/~cortlndt (includes MANMAN 3rd Party Resources site)
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