On 2003/07/15 10:32 EDT Judson Lester wrote:
I'll admit my COBOL experience is limited to a casual flirting, but in
that I can to two conclusions, which I'd be very pleased to be
disabused of. One, COBOL is strongly oriented around decimal records,
making it very limited outside of its intended realm, being (financial)
business logic. (A subconclusion was that that realm was limited
enough that it could be pleasantly implemented in a library of another
language.) Two, that the control structures of COBOL were limited
enough that it would be nearly impossible to code anything worthwhile
with producing spaghetti code with goto-sauce.
I spent 2-3 years back in the 70s untangling spaghetti COBOL and restructuring it. Made it a lot easier to maintain in the future and was well worth the effort.
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