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- From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON)
- Subject: Re: Hello, anybody out there ?
- Message-ID: <9302422.23017@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <1993Jan20.232429.10611@shared.com>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 11:32:49 GMT
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- mikek@shared.com (Mike Kenny) writes:
-
- >6. debug tools :
- >
- > To my eyes it seems that the one true advantage of the proprietary
- > manufacturer was that the could supply the same development and
- > debug tools with all languages supplied on their hardware. But where
- > are the integrated debug environments on UNIX ?
- >
- > Has anybody else encountered this requirement ? found a solution ?
-
- Yes, I have needed to use a debugger.
- The ACU debugger is pretty good. (My one major complaint was that
- it used paragraph names rather than using paragraph within section,
- which was basically useless for us since our coding standard was that
- ALL paragraphs were named 'SECT-CONTROL'.)
-
- > lain awake at night dreaming of gdb ?
-
- No, I dreamt of Borland's Turbo Debugger and Turbo Profiler ;-)
- Especially the profiler - or *any* profiler.
- What do you do when your customers complain that your 300,000-line
- COBOL system is too slow? :-(
-
- >I could go on, but these are MY major complaints with the standards and
- >the current state of COBOL. What are yours ?
- >
- >I am aware that for many people the important issues are those relating
- >to screen and file handling and perhaps somebody will post some of these
- >if we can get some real COBOL dialog started here. For my own case, we
- >use third party screen handlers that need no interaction with the COBOL
- >and most of our file handling is done by calls to a database package.
-
- We wrote our own screen handler and file handler in COBOL.
- (Not quite as masochistic as writing your own COBOL compiler in COBOL ;-)
-
- As regards alt. vs comp. status of alt.cobol, if you don't like it then
- change it! Read the guide on creating a new newgroup in news.announce.new-users
- (or somewhere there in the news hierarchy - perhaps news.answers), post
- a Request For Discussion, then issue a Call For Votes, etc.
-
- --
- Fergus Henderson fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU
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