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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Is COBOL Dead?!
- From: riplin@kcbbs.gen.nz (Richard Plinston)
- Date: 10 Mar 96 03:07:12 GMT
- Message-ID: <329669.11232.24980@kcbbs.gen.nz>
- References: <4hft0g$lp8@news.interpath.net>
- Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand
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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
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- There has been a 32 bit OS/2 Cobol for some time now. The OS/2
- version bundled with the DOS compiler is stil 16 bit though, but
- that is only because it is the same compiler.
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