A rather interesting article.

It seems to have an embedded video, but I use
noscript to control my browsing. All I see
is the text.


https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazine/cobol-controls-your-money

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On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 23:13:44 -0000 (UTC), John McCue
<jmccue@obsd2.mhome.org> wrote:

A rather interesting article.

It seems to have an embedded video, but I use
noscript to control my browsing. All I see
is the text.

The article says COBOL wasn't used until 1969 yet I coded parts of the
Accounts Receivable system for Westinghouse Electric Internation 1963-
1966 in RCA 301 COBOL and \Payroll and marketing programs in DOS 360
COBOL (D IIRC) 1966 onward.

If institutions would learn modern COBOL they would find that it is
very capable of being upgraded and doing new things. While the
machine code to handle a database row is far more than that required
to handle a random access record, the advantage is that it is far
easier to add fields to or expand existing fields in the data base row
than it is to make the comparable changes to a random access record.
Clark Morris

https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazine/cobol-controls-your-money

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In article <heporfdr27o076vug3uogl73dnk5ar36nd@4ax.com>,
Clark F Morris <cfmpublic@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:

On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 23:13:44 -0000 (UTC), John McCue
<jmccue@obsd2.mhome.org> wrote:

A rather interesting article.

It seems to have an embedded video, but I use
noscript to control my browsing. All I see
is the text.

The article says COBOL wasn't used until 1969 yet I coded parts of the >Accounts Receivable system for Westinghouse Electric Internation 1963-
1966 in RCA 301 COBOL and \Payroll and marketing programs in DOS 360
COBOL (D IIRC) 1966 onward.

The article's author is Clive Thompson, a fellow who was courteous enough
to respond to my own unsolicited email just the other day in (ctrl-Z,
pine, i, ctrl-y (as the thing needs))... 2017.

If institutions would learn modern COBOL they would find that it is
very capable of being upgraded and doing new things.

One of my guilty pleasures is to sit in front of youngsters yowling about 'there's something wrong with the COBOL program', invoke a browse on the
load modules and point... 'You see that? That's the compile date, this
thing hasn't been changed since the full-system compile for Y2K.'

(it used to be the last few bytes of the third record that IEWL would
generate from IKFCBL00... ahhhh, for the Oldene Dayse... good thing
they're gone)

DD

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<heporfdr27o076vug3uogl73dnk5ar36nd@4ax.com>
Hello Clark!

Tuesday November 24 2020 01:58, Clark F Morris wrote to All:

On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 23:13:44 -0000 (UTC), John McCue <jmccue@obsd2.mhome.org> wrote:

A rather interesting article.

It seems to have an embedded video, but I use
noscript to control my browsing. All I see
is the text.

The article says COBOL wasn't used until 1969 yet I coded parts of the Accounts Receivable system for Westinghouse Electric Internation 1963-
1966 in RCA 301 COBOL and \Payroll and marketing programs in DOS 360
COBOL (D IIRC) 1966 onward.

If institutions would learn modern COBOL they would find that it is
very capable of being upgraded and doing new things. While the
machine code to handle a database row is far more than that required
to handle a random access record, the advantage is that it is far
easier to add fields to or expand existing fields in the data base row
than it is to make the comparable changes to a random access record.
Clark Morris

https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazine/cobol-controls-your-money

The author did NOT do his due diligence I started writing Cobol in 1961 on
a IBM 1401. I did not go to college to learn it as the IBM manual was only
50 pages long. By 1963 was involved in major systems again in Cobol.

It's bad enough the newspapers do not research correctly (ok the so called journo's) but for a website supposed run by professional computer people it
is deplorable - assuming of course that they are ....

Find similar problems with articles about aviation.

Too many rely on google without checking facts else where

How ever I agree with the comments about 'Thomas' as I do get asked to do small amounts of work on old code or creating new.

Of course my rates have shot up these days and even more so if I have to commute or stay at a local hotel .


Vincent

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