> On 19 Mar 2017, at 16:14 , Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > >> On Mar 19, 2017, at 11:04 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk >> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >> ... >> That's because, unlike the COBOL Professionals, the Fortran people drank from >> the OO KoolAid. > > Speaking of OO and COBOL, a colleage of mine has a button with the text "ADD > 1 TO COBOL". > > paul >
Given that C++ is the object-oriented descendant of C, one might expect object-oriented COBOL to be named "ADD 1 TO COBOL". In my opinion, the object-oriented successor to COBOL is called Java - it's similarly verbose, and like COBOL, originally intended for average, fungible programmers.
