Sujet : Re: COBOL, Article on new mainframe use
De : jgd (at) *nospam* cix.co.uk (John Dallman)
Groupes : comp.archDate : 18. Aug 2024, 19:21:24
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In article <
v9t3ih$2e8ee$1@dont-email.me>,
OrangeFish@invalid.invalid(OrangeFish) wrote:
An interesting comment on the learning curve (and I know nothing
about COBOL) given the story that the language was created to allow
non-programmers to programme.
It doesn't require learning concepts that are strange to accountants or
bookkeepers. Just about all of its keywords are ordinary English words
being used in something like their normal sense. It's much easier for
business people to learn than assembler, which is what it was intended to
replace.
However, it has a /lot/ of keywords and is generally verbose, the rules
on combining keywords are a bit weird, and it lacks "expressive power" -
trying to get it to deal with data types that aren't built into it is
kind of hard. I had a basic COBOL course at college in 1980-81, and
became quite clear that this wasn't what I wanted to do.
John
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17 Aug 24 | Re: COBOL, Article on new mainframe use | 5 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
17 Aug 24 | Re: COBOL, Article on new mainframe use | 1 | | John Levine |
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18 Aug 24 | Re: COBOL, Article on new mainframe use | 24 | | OrangeFish |
18 Aug 24 | Re: COBOL, Article on new mainframe use | 1 | | John Levine |
18 Aug 24 | Re: COBOL, Article on new mainframe use | 22 | | John Dallman |
18 Aug 24 | Re: COBOL, Article on new mainframe use | 14 | | MitchAlsup1 |
19 Aug 24 | Re: COBOL, Article on new mainframe use | 1 | | John Dallman |
23 Aug 24 | Re: COBOL, Article on new mainframe use | 12 | | Terje Mathisen |
23 Aug 24 | Re: COBOL, Article on new mainframe use | 11 | | Michael S |
23 Aug 24 | Re: COBOL, Article on new mainframe use | 10 | | Terje Mathisen |
23 Aug 24 | Re: COBOL, Article on new mainframe use | 9 | | Michael S |
23 Aug 24 | Re: COBOL, Article on new mainframe use | 6 | | John Levine |
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2 Sep 24 | Re: COBOL, Article on new mainframe use | 1 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
24 Aug 24 | Re: COBOL, Article on new mainframe use | 2 | | John Dallman |
28 Aug 24 | Re: COBOL, Article on new mainframe use | 1 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
19 Aug 24 | Re: COBOL, Article on new mainframe use | 7 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
19 Aug 24 | Re: COBOL, Article on new mainframe use | 6 | | John Levine |
21 Aug 24 | Re: COBOL, Article on new mainframe use | 5 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
21 Aug 24 | Re: COBOL, Article on new mainframe use | 4 | | Keith Thompson |
21 Aug 24 | Re: COBOL, Article on new mainframe use | 3 | | MitchAlsup1 |
21 Aug 24 | Re: COBOL, Article on new mainframe use | 1 | | Keith Thompson |
2 Sep 24 | Re: COBOL, Article on new mainframe use | 1 | | Tim Rentsch |
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22 Aug 24 | Re: Article on new mainframe use | 81 | | BGB |
23 Aug 24 | Re: Article on new mainframe use | 1 | | Stephen Fuld |
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23 Aug 24 | Re: Article on new mainframe use | 77 | | BGB |
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24 Aug 24 | Re: Article on new mainframe use | 1 | | BGB |
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28 Aug 24 | Re: Article on new mainframe use | 70 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
29 Aug 24 | Re: Article on new mainframe use | 69 | | John Levine |
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31 Aug 24 | Re: tiny COBOL, Article on new mainframe use | 8 | | Stefan Monnier |
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2 Sep 24 | Re: tiny COBOL, Article on new mainframe use | 2 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
4 Sep 24 | Re: tiny COBOL, Article on new mainframe use | 1 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
1 Sep 24 | Re: Article on new mainframe use | 6 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
1 Sep 24 | Re: COBOL history, Article on new mainframe use | 3 | | John Levine |
1 Sep 24 | Re: COBOL history, Article on new mainframe use | 1 | | Lynn Wheeler |
2 Sep 24 | Re: COBOL history, Article on new mainframe use | 1 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
1 Sep 24 | Re: Article on new mainframe use | 2 | | John Dallman |
2 Sep 24 | Re: Article on new mainframe use | 1 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
1 Sep 24 | Re: Article on new mainframe use | 48 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
1 Sep 24 | Re: Article on new mainframe use | 47 | | MitchAlsup1 |
2 Sep 24 | Re: Article on new mainframe use | 46 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
2 Sep 24 | Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use | 45 | | John Levine |
2 Sep 24 | Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use | 1 | | Thomas Koenig |
2 Sep 24 | Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use | 1 | | Stephen Fuld |
4 Sep 24 | Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use | 42 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
4 Sep 24 | Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use | 2 | | Terje Mathisen |
4 Sep 24 | Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use | 1 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
4 Sep 24 | Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use | 39 | | John Levine |
4 Sep 24 | Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use | 37 | | John Dallman |
4 Sep 24 | Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use | 1 | | MitchAlsup1 |
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5 Sep 24 | Re: transparent huge pages | 1 | | MitchAlsup1 |
5 Sep 24 | Re: transparent huge pages | 1 | | Chris M. Thomasson |
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5 Sep 24 | Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use | 31 | | John Levine |
8 Sep 24 | Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use | 30 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
8 Sep 24 | Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use | 29 | | MitchAlsup1 |
8 Sep 24 | Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use | 4 | | MitchAlsup1 |
8 Sep 24 | Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use | 3 | | Chris M. Thomasson |
9 Sep 24 | Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use | 2 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
9 Sep 24 | Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use | 1 | | Chris M. Thomasson |
9 Sep 24 | Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use | 24 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
9 Sep 24 | Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use | 23 | | MitchAlsup1 |
10 Sep 24 | Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use | 22 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
11 Sep 24 | Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use | 2 | | John Levine |
11 Sep 24 | Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use | 1 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
11 Sep 24 | Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use | 19 | | MitchAlsup1 |
12 Sep 24 | Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use | 18 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
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13 Sep 24 | Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use | 3 | | George Neuner |
4 Sep 24 | Re: Address bits again, Article on new mainframe use | 1 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
28 Aug 24 | Re: Article on new mainframe use | 2 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
23 Aug 24 | Re: Article on new mainframe use | 1 | | George Neuner |
16 Aug 24 | Re: Article on new mainframe use | 4 | | Lynn Wheeler |
15 Aug 24 | Re: Article on new mainframe use | 1 | | Thomas Koenig |
15 Aug 24 | Re: Article on new mainframe use | 7 | | Lawrence D'Oliveiro |