Thomas, I don't follow, writing in several languages , what awkward to do in cobol, supervisory stuff yes for sure.
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Feb 16, 2013, at 2:53 PM, Thomas Berg <[email protected]> wrote: >> -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- >> Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] >> För John Gilmore >> Skickat: den 16 februari 2013 20:25 >> Till: [email protected] >> Ämne: Re: Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all >> >> Tony H wrote >> >> | Now back to our regular COBOL, uh, programming. >> >> thus alluding to how many of us view of the language. >> >> Over a now long career I never took COBOL seriously. I was aware of >> it, and I even learned to write it by helping COBOL programmers with >> their problems. It is a verbose but finally very simple language. >> That said, I could not, and did not, think much of a language without >> real storage management, strings, pointers, booleans, etc., etc. It >> was move-oriented, compile-time bound, and synchronous, and I find >> these characteristics despicable. > > COBOL is certainly not a programmers language. It's very restricted by its > syntax and functionality and is often very clumsy to use. > But that is also a feature: it's hard to obfuscate - which can be seen as an > asset from the point of maintenance and security. > (Which do not mean that you can't make unintelligible programs - I have seen > many - but not at the lowest level.) > It's also helpful when you need to understand the underlying data structure > the program is based on. > > > > Regards > Thomas Berg > ________________________________________________________________ > Thomas Berg Specialist z/OS/IT Delivery SWEDBANK AB (Publ) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
