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- From: nelson_don@comm.tandem.com (Don Nelson)
- Newsgroups: alt.cobol
- Subject: Re: Re; Why COBOL for the 90's
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.180538.27875@tandem.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 18:05:38 GMT
- References: <ewBsXB2w165w@ruth.UUCP>
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- Organization: Tandem Computers
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- In article <ewBsXB2w165w@ruth.UUCP> David Douthitt, rat@ruth.UUCP writes:
- >Don Nelson <nelson_don@comm.tandem.com> writes:
- >
- >| Object-oriented COBOL is being developed by a sub-committee of ANSI
- >| X3J4 (the COBOL Committee). They are defining syntax and semantics to
- >| make COBOL work somewhat in the fashion of other object-oriented
- >| languages.
- >
- >| Some vendors already say they have some object-oriented features.
- >| However, nobody has what the OO COBOL group is defining.
- >
- >HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR.... (sorry..)
- >
- >The ANSI X3J11 (?) Forth Committee has come under fire for defining
- >a Forth standard which no one uses. Now you tell me there is an
- >entire (sub-)committee dedicated to CREATING a language? Geez....
- >
- I am quite mystified by the "HAR" stuff. Is if funny that nobody is
- implelenting
- something that is not ready? Anyhow, the humor escapes me.
-
- Apparently David did not get what I was saying. The OOCTG group is
- working
- on changes to Standard COBOL to add object-oriented functionality, not to
- create a new language. The changes will fit in quite well and it should
- be
- understandable by most COBOL programmers. There are not zillions of
- changes, but a reasonable number of them.
-
- Don Nelson
- COBOL Development, Tandem Computers, Inc
- nelson_don@comm.tandem.com
- No clever quotes here
-