> -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Richfield via AGI [mailto:[email protected]] > > In short, a COBOL-like front-end for another language like C++ would be close > to perfect, though C++ still has a lot of shortcomings for serious AI work > that > should be addressed at the same time.
If you implemented a variant of COBOL on top of .NET or Java that would do it. Basically taking the underlying framework capabilities and exposing the functionality in COBOL syntax, for example parallelism and threads, or Lambda expressions, reflection and anonymous methods.... I think this has been partially done there are various extensions in Visual Studio for COBOL. Still though... Here's an idea - let's re-spec Fortran to do better 3D graphics rendering and real-time physics simulation so people can use it to write video games. The question is why? Perhaps to migrate existing developers? Better to create a whole new language IMO. John ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
