Re: [open-cobol-list] Installing and working with open cobol

[Ben Duncan]

Sorry, John, some of us are OLD crock are here as well, we
just aren't active posters.

Yes, I do C, PERL, PYTHON, S-Lang, and Visual Studio stuff
as well as COBOL. Heck, I am even writing my OWN environment called
SLAG based on S-Lang for us OLD COBOL programmers to create applications
in (Core Library written C no less).

Sad state of affairs is such tools as the Visual Studios,
and GNU scripting languages, which can teach one basic programming
skills, but do NOT THE underlying truths and algorithms needed
to understand what is happening and why.

Just had to interject my 2 cents these days ..

John R. Culleton wrote:
> On Thursday 21 June 2007 06:59, Etta David wrote:
> > Greetings all,
<SNIP>
> Another possilbility for your use is Tiny Cobol, no longer under 
> active development, but with some interesting extensions including 
> the screen section, positioned accept and display and so on. 
>
> The demand for COBOL programmers remains low. The language is still in 
> use but there is an oversupply of old crocks like me who know the 
> language from years past. The hot new languages are the web 
> languages, such as php, xhtml and so on. 


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