[Info-vax] cobol.vim for VIM

[Richard Maher]

Hi John,

Wasn't DECset one of those products that went to EDS like ACMS and so on? (I
think they were all brought back to HP/VMS long before HP took over EDS?)

Michael, was the code generator you're talking about DECadmire? What a pile
of crap! But then when you make application development so bloody hard
(IFDL, COBOL, SQL, DCL, TDL, ADL, CDD, CMS, MMS, acmsatr, swlup etc) then I
suppose you're gagging for something to help you out :-(

Personally, I can't see any advantage of an LSE for a language such as
COBOL. Or any 3GL for that matter unless, as Michael says, you're learning.
Now if there are COBOL plug-ins for Eclipse then that would be interesting
and maybe the NetBeans hooks into the VMS COBOL compiler would work with
Eclipse? I do like the IDEs I've used ([easy]Eclipse and Flex Builder) and
think they're essential for OO development, but COBOL? (Hein, get someone in
who knows what they're doing :-)

Now how did that MOVE statement go again [expand], [expand], [expand] that's
it "TO" :-)

Cheers Richard Maher

"John Reagan" <johnrreagan at earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> "Michael Austin" <maustin at firstdbasource.com> wrote in message
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> > Does anyone know what ever happened to LSE?  There was also a COBOL code
> > generator IIRC...  I learned COBOL using these tools... well, good
enough
> > that I could read it and attend a Rdb SQL class :)
>
> LSE and DECset are alive and well.  We updated many of the language
> templates back in 2007.  The COBOL ones where in pretty good shape and
only
> needed minor changes to bring it in sync with the compiler.
>
> The COBOL code generator is long gone.  I'm not sure what happened to it.
>
> John Reagan
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