We know what COBOL stands for
Posted by Mike on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 399 views
I think this book is primarily designed for application programmers (e.g. COBOL, PL/1 programmers) who want to learn how to work with ISPF or want to improve their effectiveness with ISPF. There is nothing about TSO and how it works. … MORE
Posted by Mike on Friday, January 29, 2010 - 431 views
… off the mainframe, is now selling it as a way of enabling businesses to shift their applications written in legacy code like COBOL and PL1 to Linux. …
Posted by Mike on Saturday, January 23, 2010 - 208 views
Finally, although the subject is not a pleasant one, I must mention PL/1, a programming language for which the defining documentation is of a frightening size and complexity. Using PL/1 must be like flying a plane with 7000 buttons, …
Posted by Mike on Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 409 views
Assembler: A formula I race car. Very fast but difficult to drive and maintain.
FORTRAN II: A Model T Ford. Once it was the king of the road.
FORTRAN IV: A Model A Ford.
FORTRAN 77: a six-cylinder Ford Fairlane with standard transmission and no seat belts.
COBOL: A delivery van. It’s bulky and ugly but it does the work.
Posted by Mike on - 1,125 views
APL is a write-only language.
In C we had to code our own bugs. In C++ we can inherit them.
C gives you enough rope to hang yourself. C++ also gives you the tree object to tie it to.
With C you can shoot yourself in the leg. With C++ you can reuse the bullet.
A computer without COBOL and Fortran is like a piece of chocolate cake without ketchup and mustard.
PL/I is for programmers who can’t decide whether to write in COBOL or Fortran.
Courtesy of WorkJoke
Posted by Mike on Saturday, January 9, 2010 - 465 views
… which then shifts business apps written in legacy code like COBOL and PL1 to Linux without having to make changes to the source code or business logic. …
Posted by Mike on Monday, August 17, 2009 - 203 views
Any outsider taking a look at the RPG IV specification of today and comparing it to any other language that exists, including COBOL, and the great PL/1, … MORE
Posted by Mike on Monday, August 10, 2009 - 205 views
COBOL, one of the industry’s oldest programming languages, still “equates to 80 percent of the world’s actively used code,” … MORE
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