Jon Rothlander,
1. C#, as well as the other .NET lanuages, including COBOL.NET, can all do
what you wish to do.
C# does support the positional format you want. What the nice people here
are trying to do is help you, by saying that it's a stupid idea. Today there
are better ways to do what you want.
2. .NET programmes DO NOT understand COBOL, and thus they can't maintain
your solution of COBOL-style C# (or Java). To do that, you will need to find
guys that have an astounding sense of humor, as well as know both COBOL and
.NET. Expensive.
3. It doesn't sound as if you have lots of OO experiece, so I suggest that
you read up on the subject.
Write your first few classes. You will realise what these posts mean.
Case closed.
PS - With that budget, I could come help to port this to .NET, elegantly and
extensibly, as a "highly paid consultant" :P
--
Ernst Kuschke
MVP - C# (South Africa)
http://www.ernstkuschke.com
On 11/16/06, Frans Bouma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Also, what isn't supported in the COBOL for .Net. Is inline SQL
supported?
> If not, that more of an issue than my problem with the data
structures. If
> I can port 90% or more of the code to .Net, is that better or worse than
> COBOL not supporting inline SQL. I'm sure the COBOL solutions has
issues
> that it cannot support at well.
May I ask if you've really read a lot of the posts in this thread?
If so, you'd have known why the thing you wanted is silly
in-memory and also why mutating string buffers isn't supported and why
that's a good thing.
Inline SQL is not recommended for maintenance reasons. One should
use a proper module to do the data-access, either through
o/r mapping or through *shiver* stored procs.
> >>Java old, .NET new, looky! we smarter and cheaper - I think these are
very
> >>important messages to convey to the client.
>
> Yeah, but you know what they are going to say.... Why can't we handle
data
> structures? So in their mind, who's smarter? If COBOL can handle it,
why
> not C# and VB? In the end, it's all just MS ilCode.
I give up. :-/
FB
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