After taking a cobol course to familiarize myself with what the programmers in my company were talking about, I found it to be a lesson in frustration. Why write a 500 line COBOL program to do with Perl does in 50? Now if someone needs a PHD project maybe they can write us a COBOL to Perl utility. :-)
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 03:50:43PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Don't worry, I won't be. I may be recruiting for it, but I prefer to > > play with my Linux boxen and if necessary a few windows servers. > > Are you aware of these projects? > > http://www.open-cobol.org/ > > http://tiny-cobol.sourceforge.net/ > > Check out the status pages for COBOL-85 compliance. > > And there are commercial COBOL compilers available for "non-PC" platforms. > In COBOL-speak, that means the IBM zSeries - which runs Linux as the OS. > > Now you can combine the best of both worlds - COBOL *AND* Linux. :=) > > Mike/ > > --------------------------------------------- > http://www.valuenet.net > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with Subject: unsubscribe > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > -- -- Benjamin Story () Join the ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML email and Microsoft-specific /\ attachments. If I wanted to read HTML, I would have visited your website! Support open standards. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
