Jim Dettman
jimdettman at verizon.net
Tue Jan 14 12:51:31 CST 2014
Yes, that's certainly true. Same for Fortran emulators as well. Many of the legacy languages are available on PC's through emulation, which are written in C. But COBOL itself as a language doesn't have it's roots in C. Jim. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 01:36 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Sign up for an Office 365 Developer Site Hi Jim: I understand that COBOL is no longer written in assembler as it originally was. There is an article on the subject that came out between 2000 and 2005 but I can not find it...stored it somewhere and I will pass it along if or when I find it. Basically the article stated that both RM and ACCU COBOL, PC versions, had been re-written using C as it was difficult to find the necessary coders, time-consuming and expensive to re-code for each new chip versions on each OS. Of course there will be a slight depreciation in performance but we now have unlimited space and cycles to burn. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Dettman" <jimdettman at verizon.net> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Tuesday, 14 January, 2014 2:53:57 AM Subject: Re: [AccessD] Sign up for an Office 365 Developer Site <<and yes, even COBOL.>> If you mean the Common Business-Orientated Language, then no. C was not created until 1969 and was not released until '72 or '73. COBOL was formalized in 1959 with heavy influence from Grace Harper. She created some of the languages that lead to COBOL in the early 50's and pushed for a language that could be used by common business users. Jim. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 07:35 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Sign up for an Office 365 Developer Site Hi Charlotte: And then we have the language C. It have been around forever and it popularity just keeps growing and it keeps morphing into more children like Java, C++, C# and so on. Virtually all languages and OSs are built from the C root...like Windows, Linux, OSx and languages like Phython, PHP, Ruby, Perl and so on and so on and yes, even COBOL. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlotte Foust" <charlotte.foust at gmail.com> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Saturday, 11 January, 2014 1:27:21 PM Subject: Re: [AccessD] Sign up for an Office 365 Developer Site Jim, I seem to recall similar remarks being made about COBOL back in the day. Funny how stuff sticks around when it's useful and the wheel is really squeaky. Charlotte On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > Hi John: > > That is a good point. > > We are in a stage of computing where much of the PCs are being replaced > with little more than dumb terminals...we have come from terminals in the > 70s and earlier and now we are going back to them. These terminals (mobile > devices) are maybe new but they are only dumb terminals with a pretty > interface. Welcome back to our future. > > This means that most of the development jobs are going to the web and that > trend is showing no signs of slowing and it most likely never will. The > best you can do now is roll your own web servers and get your JavaScript > skills up to par. ;-) > > Jim > > > > > > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com