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Chris Meech's post[^] piqued my interest because I've been talking to a few guys lately, on the quiet so as not to bust their cover, who do COBOL. So it got me wondering: who's doing COBOL directly, or at the least, interfacing with COBOL modules or back end systems?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
My first programming gig was COBOL for a Sunny Canadian insurance company, Haven't touched it since though.
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Chris Meech's post[^] piqued my interest because I've been talking to a few guys lately, on the quiet so as not to bust their cover, who do COBOL. So it got me wondering: who's doing COBOL directly, or at the least, interfacing with COBOL modules or back end systems?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
COBOL is almost, but not quite, a good anagram.
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I learned it in college 10 years ago, but never had to use it. Though I'm 99% certain that one of the pricing systems I integrated with is COBOL.
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Really? That recent? Wow. I've only ever heard about COBOL and how that went extinct by the same meteorite that did the dinosaurs. To have actually worked on/with a living fossil at college, 10 years ago? Wow. OT: It took me a few days to get that blasted song out of my head.
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COBOL is almost, but not quite, a good anagram.
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility
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COBOL is almost, but not quite, a good anagram.
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility
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Really? That recent? Wow. I've only ever heard about COBOL and how that went extinct by the same meteorite that did the dinosaurs. To have actually worked on/with a living fossil at college, 10 years ago? Wow. OT: It took me a few days to get that blasted song out of my head.
If the post was helpful, please vote, eh! Quote worthy: I hereby claim this thread in the name of Drivel. Now and forever, defiant to the end. What is Multiple Sclerosis[^]? Food
Actually it was 11 years ago. I'm getting old. Which song, the MGMT one?
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. " — Hunter S. Thompson My comedy.
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Chris Meech's post[^] piqued my interest because I've been talking to a few guys lately, on the quiet so as not to bust their cover, who do COBOL. So it got me wondering: who's doing COBOL directly, or at the least, interfacing with COBOL modules or back end systems?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Not me, but I personally know five people who actively develop for IBM mainframes with languages such as COBOL, PL/I and Rexx. Three of them are at Verizon, one is a consultant and one works in a Swiss bank. I also know a guy wo was a RPG developer until recently and then decided to become a real estate agent :)
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Chris Meech's post[^] piqued my interest because I've been talking to a few guys lately, on the quiet so as not to bust their cover, who do COBOL. So it got me wondering: who's doing COBOL directly, or at the least, interfacing with COBOL modules or back end systems?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
i spent last year translating a COBOL system into C++. it was quite an experience! it has a crazy mix of BASIC-like high level built-in stuff and C-like low level structures/unions/data type munging. plus, variable aliases are pure evil.
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Not me, but I personally know five people who actively develop for IBM mainframes with languages such as COBOL, PL/I and Rexx. Three of them are at Verizon, one is a consultant and one works in a Swiss bank. I also know a guy wo was a RPG developer until recently and then decided to become a real estate agent :)
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Chris Meech's post[^] piqued my interest because I've been talking to a few guys lately, on the quiet so as not to bust their cover, who do COBOL. So it got me wondering: who's doing COBOL directly, or at the least, interfacing with COBOL modules or back end systems?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Meech's post[^] piqued my interest because I've been talking to a few guys lately, on the quiet so as not to bust their cover, who do COBOL. So it got me wondering: who's doing COBOL directly, or at the least, interfacing with COBOL modules or back end systems?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
I worked on a massive project about 15 years ago that was COBOL. I created a huge database and had to link it to the epos system for Whitbread Brewers and Pub Management (Back when they still made what they laughingly called 'Beer'). Never since, and never again with a bit of luck.
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i spent last year translating a COBOL system into C++. it was quite an experience! it has a crazy mix of BASIC-like high level built-in stuff and C-like low level structures/unions/data type munging. plus, variable aliases are pure evil.
Chris Losinger wrote:
plus, variable aliases are pure evil.
Is that in reference to COBOL's magical 88 Levels? :)
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My only brush with COBOL was a Tech College, I'd prefer not to remember the experience.
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Sounds painful.. She was only a COBOL lecturer at my technical college but she broke my heart
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Chris Meech's post[^] piqued my interest because I've been talking to a few guys lately, on the quiet so as not to bust their cover, who do COBOL. So it got me wondering: who's doing COBOL directly, or at the least, interfacing with COBOL modules or back end systems?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
I interfaced with COBOL in one of the projects to interface with a legacy AS400 based system. I did not have to understand the full program, just the data formats and the job got done with little googling.
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Chris Meech's post[^] piqued my interest because I've been talking to a few guys lately, on the quiet so as not to bust their cover, who do COBOL. So it got me wondering: who's doing COBOL directly, or at the least, interfacing with COBOL modules or back end systems?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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i spent last year translating a COBOL system into C++. it was quite an experience! it has a crazy mix of BASIC-like high level built-in stuff and C-like low level structures/unions/data type munging. plus, variable aliases are pure evil.
Chris Losinger wrote:
a crazy mix of BASIC-like high level built-in stuff and C-like low level structures/unions/data type munging
I've played that crazy shyte in the past. I think 92/93 was the last COBOL I did in anger and maybe 98/99 looking at it to find out WTF it was doing.
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I was a vet of three campaigns when I started AS/400 but it was deved under RPG
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Chris Meech's post[^] piqued my interest because I've been talking to a few guys lately, on the quiet so as not to bust their cover, who do COBOL. So it got me wondering: who's doing COBOL directly, or at the least, interfacing with COBOL modules or back end systems?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
My first programming job was writing COBOL on a TI-990. It was COBOL 74 so didn't even have END-IF