26 Sep
2014
26 Sep
'14
8:29 a.m.
On Sep 26, 2014, at 11:13 AM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
MicroFocus also has VisualCOBOL. There's a VisualFortran out there
somewhere as well I think.
So, y'all think that OOPs is a JOKE?
I wonder what Djikstra would have said about them.
Trust me, you would not want to be at the receiving end of that. It would be similar to
the scorching he gave me when I mentioned Algol 68.
>> (Know
any good COBOL programmer's jokes?)
Object Oriented COBOL? Yep, it exists.
Fujitsu Cobol .NET.
Dot Net. In Cobol. (Apparently it's now called "NetCOBOL" or some such.)
Oh, for the indecipherable hieroglyphics of APL, or the tedious verbosity
of COBOL.
APL is still available (OpenAPL for example, on Unix). I used it some time ago; it?s
handy for some problems in cryptanalysis.
paul