From: billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 )
Subject: Re: COBOL (Was: Modernizing Ada; now moving to comp.lang.misc)
Date: 15 Oct 89 17:44:42 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6783@hubcap.clemson.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2431@munnari.oz.au
From ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe):
> COBOL has changed *dramatically* with time. Successive COBOL standards
> have not merely added new things (like nested programs, terminators on
> compound statements, new statements) but have also discarded old things
> (like the ALTER statement).
Oh, come on. How about recursion? How about generics? How about
multitasking? Are you seriously suggesting that COBOL has made more
than a shabby pretense of keeping up with the technology of software
engineering? These are band-aids, which totally disregard the many
fundamental problems that COBOL has been steadfastly ignoring for decades.
(Followups to comp.lang.misc...)
Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1989-10-13 20:28 Modernizing Ada Erland Sommarskog
1989-10-14 19:13 ` Adding Multiple Inheritance (was: Modernizing Ada) Ron Guilmette
1989-10-14 20:38 ` Edward Berard
1989-10-15 20:57 ` Scott Simpson
1989-10-15 1:16 ` Dik T. Winter
1989-10-14 20:50 ` Modernizing Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-10-15 9:54 ` Richard O'Keefe
1989-10-15 17:44 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 [this message]
1989-10-16 3:50 ` COBOL (Was: Modernizing Ada; now moving to comp.lang.misc) Richard O'Keefe
1989-10-17 0:46 ` Modernization William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
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