On 30 Nov 2009 10:58:01 -0800, [email protected] (McKown, John) wrote:
>I agree that Enterprise COBOL has the potentiality for excellent code. >One thing lacking that exist for Java, Perl, Ruby, and other such languages >is a HUGE support library. CPAN has so much good stuff in it that writing >something like a browser in Perl is simple. Try it in COBOL. What COBOL needs >is something equivalent to CPAN or the other user and vendor supplied support >routines. I would shudder to try to write a browser in COBOL. Because I would >have to do it ALL myself. And for "browser" substitute any advanced >"Internet aware" functionality. Perhaps RDz (or whatever it's called) has >advanced functionality for COBOL in it. I don't know. But writing a TCP/IP >program in Java is, relatively, simple. It's even easier in other languages. The library is the advantage of OO, as OO CoBOL doesn't need a CoBOL library. Any language will do. Of course, library based languages have their own issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
