Right! Your car is out of gas, and so you complain "This darned Chevrolet doesn't run."
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 8:37 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Here we go again > At this point they need to bring back people who know the system. Quite likely, but, absent good documentation, that would be true whether it were written in Ada, BLISS, COBOL, DIBOL, ESPOL, FLOW-MATIC, GOM, Haskell, Icon, Java, Kotlin, Lua, Mesa, Napier88, occam, PL/I, QtScript, Raku, Smalltalk, Tcl. Umple, Vyper, Wolfram Language, XL, Yoix or ZPL. The basic problem is that they didn't have adequate documentation, contingency planning or staffing. But, let's admit it, the language used is always a convenient scapegoat. Which is not to say that COBOL doesn't have flaws, just that it's being used as a whipping boy for somebody else's failings. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
