Cobol Isn't Dead

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 30, 2004 @02:15AM from the not-quite dept.

YellowYahoo writes "Ever wondered how to combine old and new technology for fun and profit? Doing their part to continue COBOL's dominance of installed software, Deskware has developed a COBOL based scripting language designed for serving web pages. Whether or not COBOL will succeed as the next great web language, is obvously up to some debate, but there is at least one active site deployed in Cobolscript. According to their FAQ, their main advantage is leveraging existing employees' programming knowledge. Does that make it a reasonable language to use? There's certainly some justification that COBOL makes a better langauge for implementing business rules than either Perl or Java. Time to dust off (or start learning?) all those older languages!"

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Re:The Wow Community by Nighttime · 2004-03-30 07:25 · Score: 3, Informative

To a COBOL person, that probably looks as clear as i++;.

That would be ADD 1 TO i in COBOL :)

Yes, I am a COBOL programmer and I had no problem comprehending the script linked to in the grandparent.

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I've got a fever and the only prescription is more COBOL.
Re:still awaiting... by sinserve · 2004-03-31 06:26 · Score: 2, Informative

Ask and ye shall recieve.