Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 09:27:21 -0800 (PST) From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.truenorth.org> To: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) Cc: jgrosch@sirius.com, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, lenzi@bsi.com.br, brian@mediacity.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD beats SCO at its own game Message-ID: <199612201727.JAA01926@superior.truenorth.org> In-Reply-To: <199612201647.IAA04872@athena.tera.com> from Gary Kline at "Dec 20, 96 08:47:43 am"
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>According to Josef Grosch: >> >On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Lenzi, Sergio wrote: >> > [ DELETED ] >> >COBOL...it never dies! :) >> > > > Really. (I wonder what the `mf' in `mfcobol' > stands for... .) > MicroFocus COBOL. MicroFocus is know for it's COBOL tools on UNIX. HP get their compiler from them. >> >> The common wisdom has approximately 75% to 85% of all existing code is >> written in COBOL. Most of it is 15 to 20 years old and in bad need of a >> rewrite. Your checking account at your bank is maintained by a badly >> documented, bug ridden, 20 year old cobol program running on an IBM >> mainframe. Be afraid, be very afraid. >> >> [ DELETED ] >> >> > > Does anybody know if there are any translators > available that can transform COBOL to another, > more manageable language? FORTRAN, for example. > > Trying to de-kink the rats' nests of > billions and billions [good bye, Carl] lines of > COBOL is death. --This prob'ly belongs on the > chat lists, but I'd be interested if there is > such a translator. This list would probably > know..... > > gary kline > I have spent a lot of time contracting in big COBOL/IBM shops in Chicago and I have not heard of one. Their maybe several out there but considering what a unholy mess the average legacy program is I doubt they are any good. Keep in mind COBOL is almost as old as FROTRAN (1957 - 1958) and each manufacture had their own spin on COBOL, adding little "features" and miss implemting other languages components. Write a __GOOD__ translator and the world will beat a path to your door. Josef "Recovering COBOL hacker" Grosch -- Josef Grosch | Laugh while you can, monkey boy ! | FreeBSD 2.1.6 jgrosch@sirius.com | - John Warfin - | UNIX for the masses
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