Title :
Cobol: perception and reality
Author :
Arranga, Edmund C. ; Coyle, Frank P.
Author_Institution :
Cobol Group, USA
fDate :
3/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The authors list the perceptions they have uncovered and counter them with the reality of Cobol. Some of the perceptions are: Cobol is a mainframe language-it has been available on PCs since their inception; Cobol stopped evolving in the 1970s, stopped growing in popularity in the 1980s, and stopped being used to develop client-server and Web-based applications in the 1990s; and Cobol is not an object-oriented language, when, in fact, it has objects galore
Keywords :
COBOL; Internet; business data processing; client-server systems; object-oriented languages; object-oriented programming; Cobol; PCs; Web-based application development; business applications; client-server application development; object-oriented language; Algorithms; Code standards; Core dumps; Displays; Filters; History; Market research; Peer to peer computing; Qualifications; Storage automation;
