I havent used the Cobol in the sense of Objects yet. I am some John: I havent used the Cobol in the sense of Objects yet. I am somewhat familar with XML, etc. I guess IMHO I was fortunate to have learned Assembler first and then Cobol. I worked in A CICS macro shop for a bunch of years in the early days, CICS 1.4 , we have VSE runnng CICS and VM. At that time we VMers were kinda rogue. I was younger and loved VM, still do. I dont feel there is anything wrong with rogue ideas , as long as the the ideas that are put into practice can be supported. Some of the newer languages are really good and hve no issue with them. But learning them sometimes is the age old problem, when your buried with work. Scott J Ford
________________________________ From: "McKown, John" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, April 22, 2010 8:20:05 AM Subject: Re: COBOL - no longer being taught - is a problem > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Ford > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 7:14 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: COBOL - no longer being taught - is a problem > > Its interesting now people in various organizations are in a > 4 star panic when the word Cobol comes up. Everyone is so > into JAVA and the other object languages. The other > interesting fact is how many kids (20-30 yr olds) want to > learn Assembler or Cobol ...they go where the money is thats > JAVAm C#, C++, etc. I dont fault them, just think its a sign > of changes going on. > > > Scott J Ford COBOL can be object oriented as well. And it does interoperate with Java, at least with z/OS Enterprise COBOL (tho not as well as some would like).. It's just that people don't seem too interested in upgrading their COBOL skills into the new facilities. An example here is some COBOL which does XML to interchange data with a Windows system. It was written by one of our more "rogue" programmers (who was "let go" in a recent downsizing). It works well. Other programmers don't like it because they are unfamiliar with and dislike XML. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets® 9151 Boulevard 26 . N. Richland Hills . TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone . (817)-961-6183 cell [email protected] . www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets® is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company®, Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
