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- From: tdarcos@digex.digex.com (Paul Robinson)
- Newsgroups: alt.cobol
- Subject: Re: cobol
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 12:14:39 GMT
- Organization: Tansin A. Darcos & Company, Silver Spring, MD USA
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- alan.popow@canrem.com ("alan popow") writes:
- : RE: Message 760 entered on Jan 12,93 by SINARRWB to ALL
- : ===========================================================================
- :
- : In general I agree with the conclusions. Use them for their strengths, but
- : I do have to wonder about the statement above. Never? Would you seriously
- : consider writing an o/s in COBOL? How about a mouse, video, or any other
- : kind of external driver?
-
- Someone once suggested the idea of writing a Compiler in COBOL, maybe even
- the COBOL compiler itself! On the other hand, he may have been suggesting
- that as the idea of punishment.
-
- : I'd sure rather use it to do business transaction updating and reporting
- : than C though.
-
- If I had to do business transaction updating I'd use Pascal before I'd use
- C, simply because I think C is a dangerous language. Not as dangerous as
- ADA, but still pretty bad. As bad as all the things people say about
- COBOL, at least it wasn't designed by someone who got the absolutely BRAIN
- DEAD idea that making case significant was a good idea. Of all the
- criticisms people can make about cobol, this disasterously bad concept in
- C is probably one of the worst design choices ever made.
-
- : Yes, but for some people, denigrating COBOL is probably their only form of
- : recreation.
-
- I like the line that a Basic-Plus/Macro programmer liked to use:
- "COBOL is only good for reading pictures."
-