For clarification, "Bruce McKnight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Now > we have Level 2000 (IBM calls it OS/390 COBOL and now Enterprise > COBOL). This specification expands the functionality into object > orientation. Most books that cover OO-COBOL (some call it COOL - COBOL > Object Oriented Language) do a fair job if you're already comfortable > with object orientation. >
A) The latest Standard is the 2002 (not 2000) ISO (and ANSI) Standard B) Enterprise COBOL does not claim to implement this Standard (and actually is not nearly as close to it as some other vendors, e.g. Micro Focus and Fujitsu) C) IBM's OO COBOL is not even REMOTELY compatible with the OO COBOL specified in the 2002 ISO COBOL Standard D) Most "books" on OO COBOL were written before 2002 and often have VERY different syntax than that in the Standard (and that implemented by many vendors - including IBM). E) There is a SHARE requirement for IBM to implement the "full" ISO 2002 COBOL Standard and IBM has NOT rejected it. However, they also have given little (or no) indicating that they either see a business case for doing so, nor have any "immediate" plans for doing so. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
