Re: J4 - presentation/discussion on "Future of the COBOL Standard"

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:38:37 +1300, "Pete Dashwood"
<dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Unfortunately, I believe it is too late.

Except for those of us whose best skills are CoBOL, I don't see that
this is particularly unfortunate. Adapting CoBOL, or for that
matter C is not necessarily the best way to build new tools for our
new needs.

Kind of like the old idea of building a robot who drives a car just
like a chauffeur, sitting in the driver's seat, turning his head
around to see behind him, and stepping on the throttle. Or for that
matter, designing a one person car to run just like a horse.

Sometimes starting over will create a better product.

(I wish computers had been designed from scratch to store data with
GMT in all their time-date-stamps - and languages such as CoBOL had a
function to convert the computer time to local).
.

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