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- From: ppch@doc.ic.ac.uk (P P C Herring)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
- Subject: Re: A general question about languages - Rexx, Natural, C++, and Cobol
- Keywords: Rexx Natural C++ Cobol
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- Date: 17 Dec 92 21:52:01 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.153357.22437@cs.tulane.edu>
- Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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- In article <1992Dec17.153357.22437@cs.tulane.edu>, brown@cs.tulane.edu (Anthony Brown (Tony)) writes:
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- |> I am new to the world of IBM mainframe computing,
- ...
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- |> Finaly, besides the fact
- |> that Cobol is so heavily used that it would be hard to stop using it and
- |> change to a different language, is there any reason why Cobol should be used
- |> over other languages like Rexx or Natural? Does Cobol have some functionality
- |> that other languages do not?
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- A lot of mainframe system use database management systems that allow their data
- manipulation and retrieval commands to be embedded in a small set of supported
- languages, of which COBOL is always one because when the DBMS was first thought
- of ... . IBM's DB2 and CA's IDMS are examples of what I mean. This means COBOL
- does in fact have functionality that other languages don't (PL/1 might be a
- contender).
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- /* Patrick Herring, Imperial College, University of London */
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