On 17 Dec 2010 at 15:08, Parshwa Murdia wrote: Date sent: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:08:46 +0530 Subject: Re: About programing, a general question From: Parshwa Murdia <b330bkn@xxxxxxxxx> To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe> <mailto:users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe> > > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 9:18 AM, James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > COBOL is still very much in use in the financial industry and will > probably be so for years to come. It helped me out in my last job as I > was handed a print-out and found the problem in a matter of minutes. > Missing punctuation (period.) > > James McKenzie > > > But I guess C would be good! > OpenCobol is an implementation of COBOL that works on Linux and windows, and it takes Cobol code, but converts it into C that is then compiled. I have heard of a number of projects being migrated from mainframe systems to opencobol. The C code does the job, but writing it in C is generally smaller, but a lot of work. > > -- > > Regards, > Parshwa Murdia +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 10119018.500954 | EINSTEIN 5086853.040851 ROSETTA 2599032.707714 | ABC 3694200.474661 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
