Cobol - Re: IBM file status 97 (was: Prodcuing an output file only onFriday?

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Re: IBM file status 97 (was: Prodcuing an output file only onFriday?

Howard Brazee

2006-04-28, 6:55 pm

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:20:53 -0600, "Frank Swarbrick"
<Frank.Swarbrick@efirstbank.com> wrote:

>Not to defend COBOL in and of itself. It's just I simply don't know of any
>other language that is better suited for financial applications. I would
>love to have a language that has all of the strengths of COBOL but also all
>of the strengths of other more modern languages.

True. But I don't think many companies choose languages for
financial applications. We choose financial applications and take
the language(s) that come with them.

The application companies have different criteria for selecting their
language(s).

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