Author: Shaun Brewer
Date: 15:58:34 09/04/99
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On September 03, 1999 at 19:44:22, Claudio A. Amorim wrote: >On September 03, 1999 at 08:39:31, Kelly Patterson wrote: > >>9.3.99 >> >>To My Fellow Members: >> >>I am just beginning a COBOL college class and they have developed an >>object-oriented addition to the traditional COBOL (85). I was wondering if it >>is possible to use this to create a chess program (with a GUI)? Are there any >>programs out there where this was used? If so, can I retrieve the code? >> >>As I said, I am a rank beginner so I do not have a comprehensive grasp on all of >>this ... forgive any ignorance in my questions. >> >>Thanks, >> >>Kelly Patterson > > >Hello, Kelly; > >Trying do write a chess program in COBOL would be a pointless exercise of >patience. You'd rather forget about it. >To be frank, being a Computer Science teacher, I think you should forget about >COBOL altogether, as soon as possible. My father gave me the same advice, some >13 years ago, and I never regreted it. > >Best wishes, > >Claudio. Claudio, There are still millions of lines of code out there written in COBOL and there are a lot of contractors out there very very glad they learnt COBOL, I only wish I was one, I interview them then they get paid a lot more than I do. I was told the same thing as you 15 years, forget COBOL its dead etc etc. (my college was just stopping teaching the language). I believe COBOL will still be marketable for another ten years or so and the rates will keep on going up as less programmers learn it. However COBOL for chess programming is not a good idea, try C more appropriate for chess and marketable. Shaun Brewer
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