COBOL
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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
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Chris Losinger wrote:
plus, variable aliases are pure evil.
Is that in reference to COBOL's magical 88 Levels? :)
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
yep.
77 try-mid value 'n' pic x.
88 try-mid-n value 'n'.
88 try-mid-y value 'y'.oh, you mean:
bool try_mid;
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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
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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 got my current job 17 years ago because I knew COBOL. The company's minicomputer (yes, it was a 1980s Rand-McNally mini) used a non-relational Informix database interfaced using RM-COBOL applets and a job control language from Hell. I was the only one of 11 people they interviewed who admitted to knowing the language. I haven't done COBOL since 1999, when our entire system was replaced by MS-SQL and a VB front end as part of our regulatory upgrade for Y2K.
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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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yep.
77 try-mid value 'n' pic x.
88 try-mid-n value 'n'.
88 try-mid-y value 'y'.oh, you mean:
bool try_mid;
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That's one example of their use. I used to use them a lot for "bit-wise" enumeration.
15 ws-field-attr pic 9 comp.
88 underscore value 1.
88 blink value 2.
88 protected value 4.And in some code there would be
move hdr-field-def to ws-field-attr.
if underscore Perform AddUnderscoreEscapeToBuffer.
if bink Perform AddBlinkEscapeToBuffer.
if protected Perform AddProtectedEscapeToBuffer.They allowed for pretty imaginative ways of writing truly readable code. :) [Edit] That code is probably not quite right, but it's the best I can do from memory since I'm only a couple of years away from retirement. :)
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'Probably' interfacing to a COBOL system 'somewhere'. Our app communicates to everything via FIX and so for all I know there's a COBOL system out there, somewhere, talking ot us. :~
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Same here... I think our AS/400 accounting system is COBOL, but I reach it through HTTP/XML queries... But back in the 90s, I did spend part of a summer teaching an old COBOL programmer transition to VB...
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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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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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Almost as bad as the vascetomy, but hey that's another story ;)
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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 just met a guy who is working for a company that wrote an application that ports COBOL code to Azure!!! Talk about working the full spectrum.
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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
Eeewww! I tried COBOL exactly once, in college. Ten lines (cards) of code, 106 lines of preamble, 157 error messages, and not one of the computer center experts could find a single error in my program. Never again... X|
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My first programming gig was COBOL for a Sunny Canadian insurance company, Haven't touched it since though.
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