On 17 Dec 2010 at 15:08, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
Date sent: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:08:46 +0530
Subject: Re: About programing, a general question
From: Parshwa Murdia <b330...@gmail.com>
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> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 9:18 AM, James McKenzie <jjmckenzi...@earthlink.net>
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> COBOL is still very much in use in the financial industry and will
> probably be so for years to come. It helped me out in my last job as I
> was handed a print-out and found the problem in a matter of minutes.
> Missing punctuation (period.)
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> James McKenzie
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> But I guess C would be good!
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OpenCobol is an implementation of COBOL that works on Linux and
windows, and it takes Cobol code, but converts it into C that is then compiled.
I have heard of a number of projects being migrated from mainframe systems
to opencobol. The C code does the job, but writing it in C is generally
smaller,
but a lot of work.
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> Parshwa Murdia
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