+2 ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Tom Brennan <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Stop the ragging on COBOL please [was: RE: ASM call by value] Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2023 23:22:03 -0700
+1 On 3/26/2023 10:55 PM, Farley, Peter wrote: > I am getting increasingly tired of snide or outright dismissive references to > COBOL and by extension to COBOL programmers. > > Programmers like me. > > Yes, I am also well versed in HLASM, Rexx, awk and gawk, somewhat facile in > SORT (at least as far as knowing and using JOIN's), SQL, JCL and various > other z/OS utilities, MetalC, and lately python and bash scripting. I even > remember some of the PL/I and Fortran and Pascal I used in college and my > early employment days. I even remember some SNOBOL, which I actually got to > use productively at a then-major NY bank very early in my career. > > COBOL pays my bills and keeps my employer operating successfully and > profitably. > > COBOL does NOT rot the brain. Alcohol and various other legal and illegal > substances can, in fact, do that. Intelligently devising business solutions > to business problems in ANY computer language does NOT rot the brain. > > It is not funny or acceptable to say so. It never was. > > Peter > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2023 8:14 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: ASM call by value > > On Sun, 26 Mar 2023 23:18:49 +0000, Frank Swarbrick wrote: > > <Snipped> > >> In COBOL, for example, the following end up doing the same thing. >> > Do not use CO BOL as an exemplar of programming discipline. Cobol rots the > brain. > > -- > > This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the > addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If > the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized > representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail > and delete the message and any attachments from your system. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
