About programing, a general question

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 17 Dec 2010 at 15:08, Parshwa Murdia wrote:

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> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 9:18 AM, James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>     COBOL is still very much in use in the financial industry and will
>     probably be so for years to come. It helped me out in my last job as I
>     was handed a print-out and found the problem in a matter of minutes.
>     Missing punctuation (period.)
>     
>     James McKenzie
> 
> 
> But I guess C would be good!
> 

OpenCobol is an implementation of COBOL that works on Linux and 
windows, and it takes Cobol code, but converts it into C that is then compiled.

I have heard of a number of projects being migrated from mainframe systems 
to opencobol. The C code does the job, but writing it in C is generally smaller, 
but a lot of work. 


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> Regards,
> Parshwa Murdia


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