On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 02:21:21PM -0500, Ben Duncan wrote: >Thought I'd pass this along for us who still hold COBOL near and dear >to our hearts. > >Just got my copy of Kobol (COBOL) from > >http://www.thekompany.com > >And must say, for the price it has turned out to be a pretty >impressive product. >It does pretty much everthing that all those over-priced "Cobol" >IDE/Compilers >can do and at a fraction of the cost. > >So .. anyone want to join in a write accounting programs?
I had about 10 20-drawer file cabinets full of COBOL accounting programs I wrote for the Burroughs Medium Systems (B-2500 - B-4800) from 1969 through 1976. I could probably dig up the customized RealWorld accounting stuff I was running on the Tandy Model 16/6000 from 1983 through 1988 or so. COBOL had some really powerful commands that I've never seen in any other language (e.g. MOVE CORRESPONDIN, ADD CORRESPONDING) which made it very easy to handle fairly complex jobs very easily. I did run into some compatibility problems when moving from the Burroughs COBOL to other vendors since Burroughs COBOL was fully recursive, with PERFORMS working through a stack. This broke some programs horribly when I tried running them on RMCOBOL. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house. -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
