[CentOS] OT Open Cobol

Singer X.J. Wang swang at cs.dal.ca
Fri Apr 27 15:11:01 UTC 2012


Yes, lets move millions of lines of tested business code to Perl... and
what testing? we don't need to test it.

S


On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:04, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:

> Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone on this list had any success with installing and using Open
> > Cobol on RH or CentOS?
> >
> > Any pointers would be very welcome.
> >
> > I have Googled and am working with Vince on the Open Cobol mailing list
> > to try to resolve installation problems.
>
> *sigh*
> <pulls brown paper bag over head>
> ObAdmission: I wrote *way* too much COBOL a long time ago, in a galaxy far
> away....
>
> It really is past time to migrate to another language, y'know. You could
> probably move it to something  like perl fairly easily, or even *bleah*
> java.
>
>       mark
>
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