COBOL still lives and breathes, though, in many MANY shops (this one included). Just like the Mainframe, it won't go away easily or soon...
I feel your pain, though, I lived through it too... and if I never have to figure out where an "alter" sends the program based on the data ever again I will die happy... worse than any goto around!
April Wells
Oracle DBA/Oracle Apps DBA
Corporate Systems
Amarillo Texas
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Adam Wells age 11
-----Original Message-----
From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 4:15 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: COBOL TO ORACLE
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 16:19, Stephane Paquette wrote:
> Like Thomas Day said, Oracle is an rdbms and COBOL a programming language.
>
COBOL *** WAS *** a programming language. Horse *** WAS *** basis of
transport. You should have used past tense, Stephane. I'm not really
that partial when it comes to horses, but having suffered COBOL, I would
really leave it in the ancient past, together with Spanish Inquisition
and crucifiction as a viable capital punishment.
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