In <[email protected]>, on 11/06/2013
at 06:12 PM, "Duffy Nightingale, SSPI" <[email protected]>
said:
>That sounds pretty cool. Is the mainframe server code you are
>talking about applications or something else? Not to enrage the
>assembler bigots on here, after all, I am one but COBOL seems to
>be the simplest, easy to read, easy to teach programming language
>I have ever seen.
Have they removed the booby traps. Are they still using 77 and 88 as
magic numbers?
>Why would you not use COBOL for apps?
Because it's an awkward language, although not as bad as it used to
be.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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