Re: we might as well give up now: CobolScript(R)

2000-08-14 Thread Nathan Torkington
John Porter writes: > What strikes me as ultimately ironic is that CobolScript is touted as > a CGI scripting language, but it seems to lack a standard html-generating > library, at least judging from the examples I've seen. (playing the list nasty while Skud sleeps). That's off-topic for -lang

Re: we might as well give up now: CobolScript(R)

2000-08-14 Thread John Porter
Adam Turoff wrote: > > 97 PERFORM VARYING counter FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL counter > 8 > 98 DISPLAY `` > 99 DISPLAY `TCPIP-HOSTENT-ADDRESS(` & counter & `): ` > 000100 DISPLAY `` & TCPIP-HOSTENT-ADDRESS(counter) & ` ` > 000101 DISPLAY ``

Re: we might as well give up now: CobolScript(R)

2000-08-12 Thread Adam Turoff
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 04:53:01PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 04:48:12PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote: > > It's a vast and contrived joke, right? > > If it is, someone has really gone into some trouble: > > http://www.cobolscript.com/samples.htm Looks real to me, b

Re: we might as well give up now: CobolScript(R)

2000-08-11 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 04:48:12PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote: > It's a vast and contrived joke, right? If it is, someone has really gone into some trouble: http://www.cobolscript.com/samples.htm > Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > > > We will never conquer the world with Perl 6: > > CobolScript(

Re: we might as well give up now: CobolScript(R)

2000-08-11 Thread David L. Nicol
It's a vast and contrived joke, right? I like the way the "check out the (xx) page" links tend to link to exactly the page you are looking at Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > We will never conquer the world with Perl 6: > CobolScript(R) got there before us. > > http://www.cobolscript.com/