At MS' PDC in October they had some speakers giving status updates on their FORTRAN, COBOL, & Eiffel work. All I really remember was a nice graph that showed increased functionality with OO COBOL (wasn't that destined to be standardized at some point?) and lesser functionality with COBOL 85 (85 right? It's been a while). Anyway, it seemed as though they were running into some square peg - round hole issues, but the outlook seemed good..
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At MS' PDC in October they had some speakers giving status updates on their FORTRAN, COBOL, & Eiffel work. All I really remember was a nice graph that showed increased functionality with OO COBOL (wasn't that destined to be standardized at some point?) and lesser functionality with COBOL 85 (85 right? It's been a while). Anyway, it seemed as though they were running into some square peg - round hole issues, but the outlook seemed good..