Re:It’s COBOL all the way down
by ams6110 on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @10:00AM
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It is something of a DSL, as the name suggests (Common Business Oriented Language).
I would also disagree with GP that COBOL's semantics are really very foreign. Variable declarations, assignments, expressions, loops, conditionals, etc. are not that different from other imperative languages. More verbose, certainly, but not foreign.
Re:It’s COBOL all the way down
by coldtea on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @02:35PM
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It's similar to other imprative languages in some constructs, it's very business application focused in others -- e.g. built-in support for forms, for monetary calculations and such.
I would also disagree with GP that COBOL's semantics are really very foreign. Variable declarations, assignments, expressions, loops, conditionals, etc. are not that different from other imperative languages. More verbose, certainly, but not foreign.
JCL on the other hand....