Re: CoBOL moved to OO

From: Donald Tees (donald_tees_at_nospam.sympatico.ca)
Date: 01/06/04 

Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 16:43:21 -0500

Howard Brazee wrote:
> 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.

How would anybody know? They refuse to try it based on theory based on
other languages.

Donald