Re: OO and IBM z series COBOL was Re: Discussions of COBOLphilospphy

"Judson McClendon" <judmc@sunvaley0.com> wrote in message
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> "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote: 
>
> Considering Microsoft's penchant for significantly changing Office, Visual
> Studio (and anything else that would bring in more training or Microsoft
> Publishing revenue) every iteration, I am seriously dubious about that.
> :-)

Just as well I'm not... :-)

You are forgetting that C# is TRULY platform independent, due to it
targeting IL. It isn't just about MicroSoft

They would have to change existing classes in the Foundation Class Library
and, as discussed here many times, that is NOT how OO maintenance works.

The latest Beta of VS 2008 (which I haven't downloaded yet, and won't until
the current project is finished ;-)) apparently integrates all of MS Office
so these Apps can be accessed directly as well. It is all part of the drive
to support Vista (which is built almost entirely on the DotNET framework.)

Query Expressions and Lambda inclusion in C# is not just for the MS
environment;  Unix/Linux/Mono users running C# will have these facilities as
well. In fact, if the DotNET/Mono framework is extended to the mainframe or
made part of WebSphere (and there is talk of this in some quarters) then
EVERYBODY will be able to access data this way. It is the way of the future.

Embedded SQL is already obsolete. (Stored procedures are a much better way
to go for those who have limited options.)

Pete.
--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."