Re: COBOL compiler
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:15:13AM -0500, Michael Heironimus wrote:
> 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.
I've heard about this before, but I don't think I've ever seen it.
Someday I'd like to see some "COBOL-like" code written in C.
Paul
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