Comments on: You don’t write compilers in COBOL http://www.rpgandprogramming.com/2008/06/you-dont-write-compilers-in-cobol/ Not Role Playing Games, but the RPG programming language and the craft of programming. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:55:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Larry Holder http://www.rpgandprogramming.com/2008/06/you-dont-write-compilers-in-cobol/#comment-650 Larry Holder Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:34:20 +0000 http://www.rpgandprogramming.com/?p=10#comment-650 Long live COBOL (and RPG). I wrote tons of COBOL / CICS during my early years with Wal-Mart DP in the early 80's (in what I call the "fun years"). Followed by more of the same here at UT Martin (before they switched to an Oracle-based application and the kludge they call PL/SQL). COBOL will never die. As far as functions, if I needed one, I wrote it in Assembler and called it (long live Assembler!) from COBOL. I look at C and Java stuff and think, what a mess. Those who dismiss COBOL or think it is dead or dying are quite misinformed. And for doing what they are meant to do, COBOL and RPG are classic workhorses. Ever seen a report written in C? What a joke. Long live COBOL! Long live RPG! Long live COBOL (and RPG). I wrote tons of COBOL / CICS during my early years with Wal-Mart DP in the early 80’s (in what I call the “fun years”). Followed by more of the same here at UT Martin (before they switched to an Oracle-based application and the kludge they call PL/SQL). COBOL will never die. As far as functions, if I needed one, I wrote it in Assembler and called it (long live Assembler!) from COBOL. I look at C and Java stuff and think, what a mess. Those who dismiss COBOL or think it is dead or dying are quite misinformed. And for doing what they are meant to do, COBOL and RPG are classic workhorses. Ever seen a report written in C? What a joke. Long live COBOL! Long live RPG!

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