John Backus passes away...

On 3/21/07 1:51 AM, woodelf wrote: Since just over a year, I've gone back to writing COBOL (and a little bit of C here and there, to keep me sane, for the "complicated" stuff) for a living. I'm loving every minute of it. Yeah, it's wordy, but it has a certain "je ne sais quoi" that keeps it fun, for me at least. I did some web development in Java and PHP, before, and when doing that I often found myself thinking, "this would be so much easier to do in COBOL." Of course, nowadays I find myself thinking, "this could be done so much more elegantly in C/Java/whatever," but still. You can't beat a big fat IBM zSeries when it comes to shifting gargantuan amounts of data around. It remains a joy to see company after company try to ditch the dinosaurs and move it all to Windows servers, only to fail miserably and come crawling back to the mainframe. Anyone know of a COBOL compiler for Mac OS X? :-P ,xtG .tsooJ -- Real programmers always mix up Halloween and Christmas, because Oct 31 == Dec 25 -- Joost van de Griek <http://www.jvdg.net/>