Yup. I'm a C, PL/1, assembly and C bigot myself, but the plain truth is that COBOL is mostly just a wordier way of doing the same things that other languages do. And re-writing, if it isn't done very thoughfully, tends to make things worse in my experience.
Rupert On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 at 18:34, Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > The claim that COBOL is English like is every bit as bogus as the claim > that rewriting existing COBOL applications in another language will > magically fix problems of underfunding, understaffing and general > mismanagement. > > BTW, when the language du jour is out of fashion, will they want to > rewrite the application again, with the same pretext? And will they ensure > that this time they have adequate documentation and adequate configuration > control? > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf > of Mark Regan [marktre...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2020 11:41 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Fwd: Still COBOL After All These Years? > > > https://secure-web.cisco.com/19k8avmi-YYFlfmZHhyBAdtguogqzS24H_g526jDKwAuDJUdFKvK4b9dP9NcILr6om3tw4RhCCIL8iT9BRoOhdYIdQpvVVzS2c_cErzDaoNHdWoKdxwNo0_LNCkQ5Q9AIihrnv0b2oCTrVYzZ9O23w9QsveuJH0QsJNKF9tSBOF3rS_d_kGctATEyIoNolLRFy1yU9H3ENyZd3ZvmfBWBmUQsXrzE4veTALPgCSsnFBqWR-RJkMc8a0gzcX1geNF4SWwDLIOOB3-CkgncGVl-o3ZPVrOUaxN39tIcdi5zG_BgfrZtYg2jrrDgm8fVbuj1Rig0AbPqTiZp0zGEpV1WRm1fEOzLC-GlMrQmDfLCf-_TPArnN2DxmfqG2EAwazkHfZgpkjUSFmeJBljdrt-Hx5O5ld9E7gz44hwDCvlbcdiiwu32WhgigdlBgVQ99tKX/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.planetmainframe.com%2F2020%2F07%2Fstill-cobol-after-all-these-years%2F > > Regards, > > Mark Regan > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
