sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) (12/03/89)
smk90219@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >Well, I know I'm technically nobody, but I'm curious: >Are you sure cobol isn't dead? I thought it had been replaced by, say, >Natural/Adabas, Modula, C++, etc. >At least here in the U.S. OK, I don't live in the US, so what do I know. I don't know about Natural/Adabas but certainly wouldn't like to translate a program from Cobol to C++ or even worse Modula-2. There are a lot of ugly things in Cobol, but there are a lot fancy features which are very handy for the kinds of applications you use Cobol. -- Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se