-- <snip> | > 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. <snip>| 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)