Re: COBOL compiler
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:57:27PM -0400, Al Davis wrote:
> Learn the style, so when someone gives you a COBOL-style
> program in C++, you will understand it.
Do not underestimate the value of this. You can take a COBOL programmer
and teach him C/C++/Java (or whatever popular language), and he'll pick
up the syntax just fine. And as soon as you tell him to write something
he'll write code that looks EXACTLY like COBOL in C/C++/Java syntax. It
will be unreadable, unmaintainable, and hopelessly inefficient, but
nobody will ever have time for the rewrite it desperately needs.
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Michael Heironimus
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