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From: | William M Klein |
Subject: | Re: [open-cobol-list] On forum registration problems |
Date: | Sun, 7 Aug 2011 14:28:43 -0500 |
I strongly recommend AGAINST supporting the *full* 2002 COBOL Standard. It has as required a NUMBER of things that are now OPTIONAL in the draft revision (which should become official in the next year or so). for example, VALIDATE Report Writer WRITE file-name (not record-name) ARITHMETIC is STANDARD (Standard-Decimal and Standard-binary are new in the revision) Locale support Multiple Inheritance and Parametric polymorphism * * * Supporting OO is certainly a "nice" to do item, and with gc++ being available, I can see it as NOT impossible to do. However, as far as I know, of the commercial COBOL vendors only Micro Focus has actually implemented a fully 2002 conforming OO, so that doesn't seem (to me) to indicate much of a user demand for it among existing COBOL programmers. From: David Jackson [mailto:address@hidden COBOL 2002 includes Object Oriented features. I think complete COBOL 2002 support would be a great thing for OpenCOBOL and would help make it even more useful. That should be a project goal in my view is to fully support COBOL 2002. On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 9:36 AM, David Jackson <address@hidden> wrote: Like with C++ additions to C, object oreinted extensions to COBOL can be done in a way that extends and fits into the existing language, i think that the goal with that should be to maintain complete compability with the existing form of the COBOL language. Maintaining backwards compatability is important, one thing I like about COBOL is its storied and rich history, going back to the 1950s, this has made the language have an interesting story to go along with it and is one of the reasons in my interest in it. On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 9:19 AM, David Jackson <address@hidden> wrote: Thank you for the reply to my message, it is greatly appreciated. Hopefully the problems can be fixed. On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:36 PM, David Jackson <address@hidden> wrote: Greetings, |
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