Cobol isn't dead, but ...
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>Our company has about 2 million lines Cobol code for our buisness
>application. The program is running in character mode. Now customers
>want a GUI version of our program. After testing Tools like Visual
>Object Cobol from Micro Focus and Workbench 4.0 from MF I think that
>Cobol or even Object Cobol is not the language for writing GUI
>programs!
I disagree. Too many people assume that programming tools which work
well for one Company work well for all Companies and that's just not
true. A wise man once said, "All generalizations are false, including
this one."
COBOL may not be the language for writing GUI applications for *your*
specific programming team, but I speak with Companies every day who
tell me that they would *never* consider writing in anything but
COBOL, including the GUI part.
Quote:
>Yes, you can do it in Cobol, too, but at what costs. If you compare
>developing environments like Delphi or Visual C++ to Visual Object Cobol
>you see the difference in programming speed of the GUI.
I speak with programmers every day about COBOL GUI development (that's
my job) and I have been told many times that programming teams have
attempted to develop applications in Visual C++, VB, etc. only to find
that the resulting maintenance effort is *much* higher and more time
consuming.
Remember, new development is only 20% of the job. The 80% of the job
that everyone always seems to ignore is the ongoing maintenance
effort.
Quote:
>It seems, that Cobol will be alive in some kind of Client/Server
>Environment, where Cobol does the buisness logic and C++, Delphi or
>anything else does the GUI.
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>Gerhard Weinberger
>Voice: ++43-7252-883
>Fax: ++43-7242-883 66
>CIS: 100101,3515
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Bob Wolfe, flexus
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