On 22 Apr 2010 05:21:09 -0700, [email protected] (McKown, John) wrote:
>COBOL can be object oriented as well. And it does interoperate with Java, at >least with z/OS Enterprise >COBOL (tho not as well as some would like).. It's just that people don't seem >too interested in upgrading >their COBOL skills into the new facilities. An example here is some COBOL >which does XML to interchange >data with a Windows system. It was written by one of our more "rogue" >programmers (who was "let go" >in a recent downsizing). It works well. Other programmers don't like it >because they are unfamiliar with >and dislike XML. Not "just" that. While most mainframe programmers aren't interested in upgrading their skills into OO, it is also true that most mainframe shops don't want one programmer sticking OO CoBOL into their mainframe job flow. (Even if someone spends the money to get an OO CoBOL compiler on their PC to learn how to do it, then tries to figure out how to implement it at work). And non-mainframe programmers don't see that OO CoBOL has any compelling advantages over other OO tools. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
