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-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Clark Morris [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2020 10:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years? [Default] On 16 Jul 2020 10:34:40 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main [email protected] (Seymour J Metz) wrote: >The claim that COBOL is English like is every bit as bogus as the claim that >rewriting existing COBOL applications in another language will magically fix >problems of underfunding, understaffing and general mismanagement. Looking at some of the comment I have seen in Assembler code including my own, COBOL code is close to the syntax of those comments. Clark Morris > >BTW, when the language du jour is out of fashion, will they want to rewrite >the application again, with the same pretext? And will they ensure that this >time they have adequate documentation and adequate configuration control? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
