Extractions: James R. Borck, InfoWorld IN THE NEARLY five years I have been writing for InfoWorld, never has an article of mine generated such incredible response as " Application transformation ." The article presented an overview of two tools, PERCobol Enterprise 2.5 from LegacyJ and Net Express 3.1 from Merant, that assist in migrating Cobol directly to the Web using Java encapsulation, allowing for fast deployment without recoding. Advertisement On this topic Relativity ships RescueWare for ADW I have seen the future, and it is COBOL? The Role of Linux in the Future of EDA New Strategies to Effective Business Continuity ... Data Management Strategies. Sign up Now! The mail is still pouring in almost five months later. Most of you ardent Cobolites were quick to take issue with several points raised in the article pertaining to Cobol's capabilities. Unfortunately, most were taken without appreciation for the focus or context in which they were made. Several of you have even been rewriting passages to fit the context of your case. Please stop this.
ITworld.com - I Have Seen The Future, And It Is COBOL? To look down at cobol and cobol programmers is to be as childish as the Real VMS It s obvious that I m not a cobol programmer. But if you are, http://www.itworld.com/AppDev/713/LWD991108cobol/
Extractions: Sam Mikes, LinuxWorld.com Let me tell you about a hot Web scripting language. It's been ported to almost every computer architecture ever made; its speed and readability are legendary. It's known to be good with databases. Some people swear by it, some people swear at it, but it's a force to be reckoned with, and it's coming to your desktop. It's COBOL. Advertisement On this topic The Role of Linux in the Future of EDA New Strategies to Effective Business Continuity XML in Practice. Sign up Now! Data Management Strategies. Sign up Now! I must admit that when this email crossed my desk, I was inclined to think it was a joke. After checking the calendar (no, it wasn't April Fools' Day) and the company's Web site, I was convinced it was real, and I became intrigued with Deskware's CobolScript. For while the elders of the hacking world have nothing but scorn for COBOL, I'm one of those who grew up reading the Jargon File rather than living it. I must confess now to a secret desire to know what COBOL is like ... to program in APL ... to learn Ada! My Y2K experience has slaked my thirst for this knowledge in small part, but it has (un)fortunately been limited to DEC FORTRAN with light PDP/11 macro assembler. I've had no experience with COBOL.
Perl.com: Perl Meets COBOL The cobol programmers were not novices; they were, as promised, So to the cobol programmers the idea of variablelength, \n -terminated records was new http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2000/05/cobol.html
Extractions: A few weeks ago I went to do a four-day beginning Perltraining at a local utility company. It was quite different from other training classes I'd given. Typically, my students have some Unix and C experience. These students, however, had never seen Unix before they were mostly COBOL programmers, working in the MVS operating system for IBM mainframe computers. Fortunately, I have had some experience programming IBM mainframes, so I wasn't completely unprepared for this. When we contract classes, we always make sure that the clients understand that the classes are for experienced programmers. In this case that backfired a little bit we were asking the wrong question. Almost all my students were experienced programmers, but not in the way I expected. After several years of teaching Perl classes, I have some idea of what to expect, and the COBOL folks turned all my expectations upside down. For example, when I teach a programming class to experienced programmers, I take for granted that everyone understands the notion of block structure, in C or Pascal perhaps. People familiar with this idea look at the code and see the blocks automatically. But the COBOL folks had not seen this before and had to learn it from scratch. Several times I was showing an example program, and one of the students would ask what part of the code was controlled by a
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