[vcf-midatlantic] COBOL: vintage vs. legacy code

[Dean Notarnicola]

Very true. I was doing this on an 11/780 in college back in '84.

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:59 AM Joseph S. Barrera III via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

> > Give Legacy Code New Life With Modern COBOL AppDev: Using COBOL as a JVM
> language
>
> I think Digital was doing this 30+ years ago, if you replace "JVM" with
> "VAX standard calling procedures" :-)
>
>
> http://odl.sysworks.biz/disk$cddoc04jan11/decw$book/aa-h632e-te.p14.decw$book
>
>         "VAX standard calling procedures [...] allow VAX
>         COBOL programs to call (and be called by) other
>         programs written in VAX COBOL, other VAX languages
>         (such as BASIC, FORTRAN, and MACRO), system
>         services, common run-time library subroutines, and
>         screens produced by VAX Forms handling products."
>
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 6:36 PM, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
>
> > This popped up on a screen on SourceForge just now:
> >
> >
> >        Give Legacy Code New Life With Modern COBOL AppDev: Using COBOL
> >        as a JVM language
> >
> > With billions of lines of COBOL in use, this business language powers a
> > large percentage of every ATM, government, and many other business
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> > of solid business logic without having to replace a mission critical
> > application.
> >
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> >
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> >
> >
> >
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