+1 for me as well
In fact, I have written code to read catalog records, in COBOL,
because I needed to solve a problem back in z/OS 1.4 days and I
didn't have time to write the code in ALC/HLASM, and management
would not purchase tools since they were migrating off mainframes....
Steve Thompson
On 3/27/2023 2:22 AM, Tom Brennan wrote:
+1
On 3/26/2023 10:55 PM, Farley, Peter wrote:
I am getting increasingly tired of snide or outright
dismissive references to COBOL and by extension to COBOL
programmers.
Programmers like me.
Yes, I am also well versed in HLASM, Rexx, awk and gawk,
somewhat facile in SORT (at least as far as knowing and using
JOIN's), SQL, JCL and various other z/OS utilities, MetalC,
and lately python and bash scripting. I even remember some of
the PL/I and Fortran and Pascal I used in college and my early
employment days. I even remember some SNOBOL, which I
actually got to use productively at a then-major NY bank very
early in my career.
COBOL pays my bills and keeps my employer operating
successfully and profitably.
COBOL does NOT rot the brain. Alcohol and various other legal
and illegal substances can, in fact, do that. Intelligently
devising business solutions to business problems in ANY
computer language does NOT rot the brain.
It is not funny or acceptable to say so. It never was.
Peter
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In COBOL, for example, the following end up doing the same
thing.
Do not use CO BOL as an exemplar of programming discipline.
Cobol rots the brain.
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