20 Mar
2007
20 Mar
'07
8:43 a.m.
On 20/03/07, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
John Backus gave us the
platform from which ADVENT sprang. No disrepect to Grace Hopper
intended, but can you imagine trying to write a text adventure in
COBOL?
I've done it .. full multi-user and all.
OK, it was actually in "Speedbase", a COBOL-with-bells, whistles,
text-based-gui and databases, and I never actually finished it, but I
did it...
I also 98% ported "Countdown to Doom" (an Acornsoft adventure for the
BBC Micro) to BOS/COBOL, just to see if it could be done. (It
could..)