And what's wrong with COBOL?
It enabled a team of never more than 4 programmers to develop a totally
in-house Dealer management system for a Ford Main Dealer Group, over a 10
year period, containing over 850k lines of code, developed specifically to
run on a propiatory ICL mainframe, to be ported to an RS6000 running AIX, in
only 3 months including 1 month parrallel running.
COBOL is great where it's meant to be, developing business systems ( provided
you're a fast typer).
Gary
On Friday 17 August 2001 6:02 pm, jim-ryan wrote:
> I had to reply again,
> The bit about "...with 2 years of serious cobol..."
> RUN to the nearest exit!! NOW!!!
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon Acierto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 12:46 PM
> Subject: PERL IS NOT A HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGE
>
> > Hello Guys It's me again,
> > After getting all the feedback from this maillist on my "High Level"
> > question AND going to an online dictionary and finding out that Perl Does
> > fit the definition of a high level language, I get this from the
>
> Admissions
>
> > Councellor at the U.W. ext.:
> >
> > Jon, thank you for your inquiry.
> > I sent your description of your programming background to the C++
> > application reviewer and received this input:
> > "i have to agree with will's assessment. perl is not a high level
> > language. it amounts to a scripting language. simply having 2 years of
> > working with perl says nothing about whether he has worked on more
> > complex problems or has developed the programming skills necessary to
> > understand and solve such problems from ground up. in addition, does he
> > have - in any language - the understanding of more advanced data
> > structures...with 2 years of serious cobol for example should bring
> > familiarity with files, records, and other such data types."
> > Jon, if you have the prerequisite background as described above, then you
> > will need to document and support it in your C++ application. Otherwise,
> > you will need to decide how you want to expand your programming
>
> experience.
>
> > In the UWEO program offerings, the C program would help you do this.
> >
> >
> > Can someone please help me explain to these people that writing Perl for
> > 2 years says about as much of my ability to program and understand
> > "advanced data structures" and having worked on "more complex problems"
> > as spending those 2 years with C. Am I wrong? I know that if I describe
> > to them the OOP in Perl that I've done as well as all the work I've done
> > with files
>
> and
>
> > records with data extraction (binary and ascii) that they would
> > understand. But is it just me or do these people not know anything about
>
> Perl?
>
> > Jonathan Acierto
> > Perl Programmer
> > Ocentrix Inc.
> > 206.691.7603
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > A famous linguist once said:
> > "There is no language wherein a double
> > positive can form a negative."
> > YEAH, RIGHT
> >
> >
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