> On Tuesday, August 1, 2023 at 09:16:43 PM PDT, David Crayford
> wrote:
> The raison d’être of the mainframe is to run applications written in COBOL.
Companies could convert COBOL to C++ without a problem but you can't move those
programs to Linux. The need for z/OS has nothing to do with
m my personal laptop)
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I'm trying to find where Micro Focus COBOL supports collections and
dictio
s allowing access to JVM
features?
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Subject: Re: They are *all* dinosaurs
> On 2 Aug 2023, at 11:38 am, Jon Perryman wrote:
>
>&
> On 2 Aug 2023, at 11:38 am, Jon Perryman wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, August 1, 2023 at 05:18:46 PM PDT, David Crayford
>> wrote:
>> The obvious difference is that C/C++ etc are still evolving.
>> The z/OS COBOL compiler hasn’t implemented significant features
>> of the ANSI standard. If I were
> On Tuesday, August 1, 2023 at 05:18:46 PM PDT, David Crayford
> wrote:
> The obvious difference is that C/C++ etc are still evolving.
> The z/OS COBOL compiler hasn’t implemented significant features
> of the ANSI standard. If I were a COBOL programmer I would like
> the language to suppor
> On 31 Jul 2023, at 10:28 pm, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>
> The media sling around terms like dinosaur and legacy for mainframes and
> mainframe software, and tout "new" languages and platforms like C, Unix and
> windows. But look at the dates and explain to me, e.g., how z is legacy but
> x86 is
Seems very fair to me.
I remember Dylan Beattie quoted something similar in one of his talks, and
I think he was quoting Douglas Adams.
Yes, here it is:-
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and
ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anyt
On 7/31/23 9:28 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
But look at the dates and explain to me, e.g., how z is legacy but
x86 is not, how z/OS is legacy but Unix is not, how COBOL and PL/I
are legacy but C is not.
Oh! That's simple. "legacy" is what existed before the "new and hot
thing" when someone wa
The media sling around terms like dinosaur and legacy for mainframes and
mainframe software, and tout "new" languages and platforms like C, Unix and
windows. But look at the dates and explain to me, e.g., how z is legacy but x86
is not, how z/OS is legacy but Unix is not, how COBOL and PL/I are
