Re: Cobol for Visual sutdio

Pete Dashwood wrote:

I'm impressed that the list you gave is the same one (almost) that I gave
you. Obviously, MicroFocus .NET COBOL has come a long way since the first
implementations.

Yes, I think it has. The optional syntax has been greatly streamlined,
which helps a lot.

Of your list, LINQ and the lambda operator (and thus dynamic closures)
are still missing from .NET COBOL. You made a good case for LINQ, and
lambda would be nice. (I have some notes somewhere on a functional OO
COBOL that would include a lambda operator, first-class closures, etc.
Just a hobby project.)

I'm not sure if .NET COBOL supports covariance and contravariance of
delegates, either. (I haven't tried it, and the COBOL delegate samples
I looked at all have exactly-matching signatures.)

And yes, of course, COBOL has significant additional cost. There are
different economic constraints, but the result is that the customer
has to consider whether it's worth paying for COBOL.

C# is the flagship .NET language (as it should be), so the others will
always be playing catch-up. And I don't expect people to defect from
C# to COBOL. I'm really just interested in clarifying the status of
COBOL in .NET, so that someone choosing between the languages has a
clear picture.

--
Michael Wojcik
Micro Focus
Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University
.

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