[Info-vax] VMS Cobol - GnuCOBOL

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-02-22, ultr... at gmail.com <ultradwc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 8:06:31 AM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2023-02-21, ultr... at gmail.com <ultr... at gmail.com> wrote: 
>> > On Friday, February 17, 2023 at 1:35:57 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote: 
>> >> Nothing as far as I am aware. Bob just likes to claim that DIBOL is 
>> >> the answer to everything. It's not. In a previous life, I used to 
>> >> write some applications in it, and while its well suited to certain 
>> >> applications, it is not a general language in the same way as say 
>> >> C++, Ada, Pascal, or Java. 
>> >> 
>> >> It also suffers from not having a free version so you have to pay 
>> >> for the compiler (and unless the payment model has changed over the 
>> >> last decade or so), you also have to pay for runtime licences. 
>> >> 
>> >
>> > C ???? AT LEAST DIBOL CAN BE DEBUGGED ...
>> Bob, where did I mention C in the above list ?
>
> "Nothing as far as I am aware. Bob just likes to claim that DIBOL is
> the answer to everything. It's not. In a previous life, I used to
> write some applications in it, and while its well suited to certain
> applications, it is not a general language in the same way as say
>>>>> C++ <<<<
>
> IF THAT ISN'T A PROMOTION OF C OVER DIBOL I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS ...

Er, Bob, C and C++ are two very, very, different languages.

(Regardless of what some recruiters and people with broken keyboards
would have you believe.)

Simon.

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