On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thomas, > > I don't follow, writing in several languages , what awkward to do in > cobol, supervisory stuff yes for sure. > Yoda? Is that you? :-) If this was supposed to be asking "What is it that's awkward to do in COBOL?", try calculating the offset between two data elements. For one. I know that every time I go to write something in it, I run up against "You just can't do that in this language" and my response is "Seriously? Wow." (OK, or I write an assembler function to enable what I need...) Admittedly, COBOL isn't as bad as I'd been led to believe by three decades of avoiding it -- but as the saying goes, "You can write your program in <pick a language>, or you can write a story about your program in COBOL". -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
