Re: COBOL interview tests

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:53:49 -0600, LX-i <lxi0007@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That last part bring up another conflict I have - I could probably put
forth the effort to learn OO COBOL, and make some small application with
it. I'm sure I would learn a lot along the way. But would it benefit
me past the "gee-whiz" of being able to say that I did it? (Granted,
the "gee-whiz" pull is pretty strong - but I've got some other stuff to
do with already-deployed applications too.)

In my environment OO is limited to the user interface side. If all
I'm doing is accessing the database (or screen scraping), and
providing XML for the web services - Java works quite nicely - but not
particularly because Java is OO.

I'm seeing a separation of business rules and user interfaces which is
getting wider. Moving the business rules more into the database
realm is what is finally making CoBOL less pervasive.
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