Somehow strange discussion, IMHO. I´'m sure that there are
many bright people in the COBOL community.
But: COBOL could well be some sort of biotope for not so well
teached programmers. And: most significant software packages
on the mainframe that do complicated algorithms and computations
(math, fast table lookup etc., other non-trivial tasks) are written in
other languages, for example PL/1, ASSEMBLER, C ... at least
that's my observation. Some of my customers don't use COBOL,
that is, they forbid the use of COBOL.
Today's COBOL, of course, has some modern language elements
and might well be different from the 1980s COBOL. But: what language
elements does the average COBOL programmer use?
My overall point is: this is not a mainframe topic (there are many
bright people on the mainframe scene, at least as much as on any
other platform), but a COBOL language topic.
Kind regards
Bernd
Am 13.04.2015 um 06:21 schrieb Ze'ev Atlas:
Because in most cases programmers are less than lets say bright.
Oh, I see...
I guess that this is why my rate when I program in lowly Access VBA is higher then
anything COBOL programmers could get. I am not even trying to compare that to my rate
when I write Perl, T-SQL, PL/SQL, etc. They just assume that if I agree to program in
COBOL. I must be, in your words, "Less than bright."
And that also explain why, by at large, there are not too many takers to the
regular expression functionality that I promote in the COBOL world.
What a sad statement.
ZA
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