Personally I'm an RPG (as400) man myself. ;-) Isn't 'serious cobol' an oxymoron
these days?
Gary Stainburn wrote:
> And what's wrong with COBOL?
>
> It enabled a team of never more than 4 programmers to develop a totally
> in-house Dealer management system for a Ford Main Dealer Group, over a 10
> year period, containing over 850k lines of code, developed specifically to
> run on a propiatory ICL mainframe, to be ported to an RS6000 running AIX, in
> only 3 months including 1 month parrallel running.
>
> COBOL is great where it's meant to be, developing business systems ( provided
> you're a fast typer).
>
> Gary
>
> On Friday 17 August 2001 6:02 pm, jim-ryan wrote:
> > I had to reply again,
> > The bit about "...with 2 years of serious cobol..."
> > RUN to the nearest exit!! NOW!!!
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jon Acierto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 12:46 PM
> > Subject: PERL IS NOT A HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGE
> >
> > > Hello Guys It's me again,
> > > After getting all the feedback from this maillist on my "High Level"
> > > question AND going to an online dictionary and finding out that Perl Does
> > > fit the definition of a high level language, I get this from the
> >
> > Admissions
> >
> > > Councellor at the U.W. ext.:
> > >
> > > Jon, thank you for your inquiry.
> > > I sent your description of your programming background to the C++
> > > application reviewer and received this input:
> > > "i have to agree with will's assessment. perl is not a high level
> > > language. it amounts to a scripting language. simply having 2 years of
> > > working with perl says nothing about whether he has worked on more
> > > complex problems or has developed the programming skills necessary to
> > > understand and solve such problems from ground up. in addition, does he
> > > have - in any language - the understanding of more advanced data
> > > structures...with 2 years of serious cobol for example should bring
> > > familiarity with files, records, and other such data types."
> > > Jon, if you have the prerequisite background as described above, then you
> > > will need to document and support it in your C++ application. Otherwise,
> > > you will need to decide how you want to expand your programming
> >
> > experience.
> >
> > > In the UWEO program offerings, the C program would help you do this.
> > >
> > >
> > > Can someone please help me explain to these people that writing Perl for
> > > 2 years says about as much of my ability to program and understand
> > > "advanced data structures" and having worked on "more complex problems"
> > > as spending those 2 years with C. Am I wrong? I know that if I describe
> > > to them the OOP in Perl that I've done as well as all the work I've done
> > > with files
> >
> > and
> >
> > > records with data extraction (binary and ascii) that they would
> > > understand. But is it just me or do these people not know anything about
> >
> > Perl?
> >
> > > Jonathan Acierto
> > > Perl Programmer
> > > Ocentrix Inc.
> > > 206.691.7603
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > A famous linguist once said:
> > > "There is no language wherein a double
> > > positive can form a negative."
> > > YEAH, RIGHT
> > >
> > >
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