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Next thing, someone will be pushing a new version of COBOL!

FYI, the "voting/comment period" for the next COBOL standard closed just over two months ago. I don't follow (or use) COBOL, so I have no idea when the new standard is scheduled to supplant the prior 2002 standard. And there's always COBOL.Net.

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You laugh but look at this: OO COBOL

Fortran and cobol are recently making a comeback as well. It seems to be cool, again. Does this mean we will see them as a .net application? Suppose so.. I can see it now Visual Cobol, and Visual Ada and Visual Fortran....

Where's pascal.net and cobol.net?

Pascal.Net is here and Cobol.net is here. Too damn easy.

You want Ruby, Perl or Python in there, write the IL Interpreter for it, or help one of the projects out there doing just that. Oh, that wouldn't be good enough either? Where's pascal.net and cobol.net? Shit, how many languages must MS provide for you to be happy for christs sake.

Oh, that wouldn't be good enough either? Where's pascal.net and cobol.net? Actually, Cobol.NET exist, unfortunately: http://www.adtools.com/products/windows/netcobol.h tml

COBOL is still in wide use. It is even being used with .NET, just to give you some idea of how widespread it is.

Who would have though that a mainframe manufacturer would keep prompting dead langauges? <g>

Whilst Algol isn't there, Oberon is, as is Ada, a shareware version of Forth, Haskell, Eifell, Pascal, Perl, Python (twice) and SmallTalk

They so know that if they were to open up the CLR of their .net Technology, and like, allow people to write their own CLR languages, their stock would plummet.

Um, people can write their own CLR languages. Quite a few have. Hell, they even let Borland play.

Perl

Python

FORTRA

More FORTRAN

SmallTalk alike (SmallScript)

Mondrian

Pascal

Scheme

Mercury

Eiffel

Oberon

Cobol

Ya know what's annoying? Having to type in a bunch of random crap at the end of a message because slashdot does now seem to like having a low number of characters per line.

1. Microsoft had nothing to do with this. Microfocus decided to write a COBOL plugin for VS.NET and paid the royalties to do so.

2. COBOL on .NET is more than two years old. Fujitsu was pretty much the first ISV to start a third-party language on .NET very early into the .NET beta cycles. They had a version 1.0 product at pretty much the same time .NET was released. They had full VS.NET support, including visual designers for graphical applications and even web applications. Fujitsu's implementation of COBOL on .NET adheres 100% to the COBOL standard, including all of the features and primitive datatypes that have no equivalent in .NET (for those stupid fuckers that think that a .NET language is limited to .NET-isms.)

Fujitsu netCOBOL for .NET

COBOL.NET and code & tutorials.

I found this example of scripting an asp+ page using fujitsu's cobol quite amusing. Wasn't much uglier than scripting asp 3.0.

How about Cobol.NET?

Some interesting reading:

PerlNET.

Perl for ASP.NET.

Python for .NET.

COBOL for .NET.

Eiffel for .NET.

Scheme for .NET .NET for Linux.

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Hehe. You'll have to kill a bucketload of Fujitsu developers, then. :)

Why is this being modded as "funny"?

Fujitsu is making a big push with NetCOBOL for .NET and there's a lot worse things you could learn.

Spinning knowledge of COBOL together with .NET probably ain't a bad idea if you want to position yourself as useful to big companies looking to migrate their legacy apps to .NET. Sure, it might not be interesting work (lots of tedious banking/insurance applications) but hell, if you're asking Slashdot to comment on what languages you should learn, let's face it, you aren't a born C++ programmer anyway.

Fujitsu Cobol.Net
Download

Some Examples
Hello World
Message Box
Database Access

I just couldn't let this one pass: Visual Cobol for .NET does in fact already exist, except it's made by Fujitsu, not Microsoft, and it's called NetCOBOL.

COBOL was the first high-level programming language I learned, over 15 years ago, and promptly forgot. Ah, the memories: punch cards, batch processing, ... look at me, an Old Fart(tm) at 35...

I'm 25 and I work for the Student Information & Management System for a large university. We're still using COBOL on mainframes, kinda ironic for my first programming job. We're starting to migrate functionality to the web but a lot of the old fogies here COBOL until they die, plus we have tons and tons of legacy code. If we use the COBOL.NET bit then that would save tons of time and retraining.

For what we're doing here (and have been since 1985 apparently) COBOL does the job. You don't pitch something that works.

Ya know there really is a Cobol.NET?

Seen FORTRAN under XP yet?

Yes

There's also COBOL, Perl and Python

COBOL for .NET has already been done by Fujitsu.

COBOL for .NET has already been done by Fujitsu.

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Well, querying the web, I found that imatix actually has something remotely related .. . Since I run their ftp+webserver for personal use for free, I might as well put up the link here.

I also found Fujitsu Cobol for the Web.