Given the recent (ongoing) threads about Java, C#, C++ etc in
comp.lang.cobol, I
thought I would mention that J4 has *finally* turned over the "OO
Collection
Classes Technical Report" to the ISO people. I expect to get an
announcement
soon about when the "official" national body ballot will be happening.
If you
are interested in reading the draft, it is available at:
http://www.cobolstandard.info/j4/files/06-0201.doc
The relevance (to me) of this to the ongoing comp.lang.cobol threads is
that the
Micro Focus position (which I agree with, but others certainly may NOT)
is:
Object Oriented COBOL does not (and probably never will) live in an
"Object
Oriented vacuum". It would be much, MUCH better if COBOL provided all
(any
missing) facilities to interact with the "collection classes" (as well
as other
objects, classes, and methods) provided by more popular (dominant?) OO
languages
than to provide its own language-specific collection classes.
Therefore, as
previously mentioned here (and at J4), Micro Focus will be opposing this
draft
Technical Report *and* adding this language specific solution to a
future COBOL
Standard.
If anyone who reads this comp.lang.cobol post would like me to "keep
them
informed" (off-list) of the progress of this TR and/or how to send their
comments (PRO *or* CON) to the appropriate national Standards body,
please send
me an email "off-list".
P.S. Nothing in this note should be read as a personal "endorsement" of
the
current (or past) ANSI/ISO COBOL process. However, as this *IS* an
"ongoing"
process, I still believe that getting "real world user" input is a good
thing -
whether it actually has any impact is simply another matter <G>.
--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
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