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- From: softbase@mercury.interpath.net (Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Is COBOL Dead?!
- Date: 4 Mar 1996 23:05:52 GMT
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- PJLoree (pjloree@aol.com) wrote:
- : For my Master's thesis, I am studying the viable of
- : the COBOL programming language.
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- Trust me, COBOL is alive and well. People are actually developing COBOL
- programs in UNIX now (ugh!) and porting their mainframe programs to
- UNIX (ugh!). The PC COBOL industry is thriving.
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- The problem I've seen is COBOL is way behind the curve on smaller
- platforms. COBOL on UNIX is fine since it kinda has to follow C call
- and link conventions, but on the smaller platforms...!!! MicroFocus
- COBOL for OS/2 was still 1.0 16 bit! This makes porting libraries hard
- -- the customer can run their MVS application as-is on MS-DOS in the
- runtime COBOL environment, but can't understand why you are reluctant
- to spend man-years porting your 32-bit UNIX low level C database and
- file and memory manipulating code in your library to DOS.
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- Scott
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