Hello,

Cobol continues to live.

I'm not a COBOL fan, but i would say that the language itself is quite simple
to read and it's easy for someone who has not done the job to take the source
code & understand quite efficiently the logic behind (even if i find the
grammar too restrictive & long to write).

Each language has its facilities, difficulties, goals.

I use C usually used to write "low-level" routines when speed is the
criteria. Developping a full application using C can be a disaster if the
programmers did not their job perfectly using techniques to protect
themselves from "crashes" (crazy pointers and so on).

Personnally, i use at work Cobol, C, C++, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, and each
one has its purpose.  I'm now beginning using Java.

I would say here that none of them in the list above is really "portable" from
one platform to another even the well-known java :

Has anyone tried already to write some Java applets using JDBC and bring them
to IE & Netscape ?  Due to the multiple versions of Java Virtual Machines
located on the PC itself, due to the multiple versions possible of browsers,
it's not so easily portable !

Each manufacturer's (Microsoft, IBM, ...) unofficial goal is to destroy the
standards to attract the customers/developpers !


Best regards,


Francis
luxemburg europe


In article <[log in to unmask]>,
  Donna Garverick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > Is COBOL really dead?
>
> no
>
> > > If it is what replaced it, or should replace it?
>
> i sure wouldn't, unless the code is really old spaghetti 8-O.
>
> > > If it's not, what improvements are being made to it?
>
> c-o-o-l -- object-oriented cobol (cool :-)
>
> > > And for those who think that the life expectancy of COBOL is dropping,
> > > how do we pump it up.
>
> go back to school and learn how to code in cobol again.  it aboutlike
comparing
> gw-basic to visual basic :-)
>
> > > COBOL was the first programming language I learned.  To this day, I
> > > always try to use it as a programming solution.  What are your thoughts.
>
> wanna grow old fast?  try writing/supporting an application written in c.
> *my opinions, guys!*            - d
>
> --
> Donna Garverick     Sr. System Programmer
> 925-210-6631        [log in to unmask]
>
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>
>

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