megana@hpcll19.HP.COM (Megan Adams) (03/21/90)
<<what follows is press release text>>
FOR IMMIEDIATE RELEASE
(March 8 ,1990) The OOCTG (Object Oriented COBOL Task Group), a
subcommittee of the Conference on Data Systems Languages (CODASYL)
COBOL Committee, is issuing a call for members.
The OOCTG is responsible for developing Object Oriented Programming
(OOP) extensions to COBOL. The task group is currently composed of
seven members and four observers, representing Allinson-Ross Corp.,
Digital Equipment Corp., Hewitt Associates, Hewlett-Packard Corp., IBM
Corp., Interactive Software Engineering Inc., Micro Focus Ltd.,
Realia, Inc., SPC systems USA, Sun Microsystems, and Wang
Laboratories, Inc.
The OOCTG held its first meeting in January to establish bylaws and
a scope and program of work. Tentative milestones for its work are:
- Internal working paper draft on object oriented extensions to
COBOL, expected in March 1991, followed in September by the
formal working paper.
- Proposal to add new OOP features to the CODASYL COBOL Journal of
Development, expected in March, 1992.
- Draft addendum to the ANSI X3-23-1985 COBOL Standard,
incorporating the OOP features, expected in September, 1992.
OOCTG members have voting privleges (one vote per company) and are
required to attend meetings, accept and complete work assignments, and
occasionally host one of the group's quarterly meetings.
Industry representatives who wish to participate in the second
meeting of the OOCTG, to be held March 26-30 at Hewlett-Packard in
Cupertino, CA, should contact the OOCTG chair Ken Belcher at Realia,
Inc., in Chicago IL. (312) 346-0642, FAX : (312) 346-4638.