Re: CoBOL moved to OO

From: Howard Brazee (howard_at_brazee.net)
Date: 01/06/04 

Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 20:34:52 GMT

On 5-Jan-2004, Donald Tees <donald_tees@nospam.sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Everyone talks about OOP like it was a bloody religion, when in fact you
> have about ten new constructs that can be learnt in five minutes, can be
> used in all sorts of neat ways that are effective, simple, and better
> organized than the old ways.
>
> So based on the fact it has to be capital O capital O capital P, people
> refuse to learn the syntax of a dozen new Cobol statement types. Seems
> like refusing to use divison cause division by zero is still undefined.

If one uses OO CoBOL commands without thinking in OO, what is gained?

Changing how we think is hard. Adding new commands to think the old way is
easy.