The Arguement for COBOL

[William M. Klein]

"Mark A. Framness" <mfra...@NOSPAM.athenet.net> wrote in message
news:8Sd1uPikEGru-p...@www.framnett.net...
> On Sun, 13 Jul 3900 12:26:22, "donald tees" <don...@willmack.com> wrote:
>
<much snippage>
>
> COBOL grew up in the IBM mainframe environment.

Interesting "statement". I know that IBM tendened to "dominate" the
mainframe world in the early days of COBOL (when "BUNCH" referred to everyone
else). HOWEVER, IBM wasn't the first implementation of COBOL - and never
was the only/primary place that it "grew up".

P.S. I have added comp.lang.cobol to this "thread" - as it is the preferred
NG for COBOL issues.

--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix dot netcom dot com

[donald tees]

William M. Klein wrote in message <8kofm6$r6b$1...@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net>...

>"Mark A. Framness" <mfra...@NOSPAM.athenet.net> wrote in message
>news:8Sd1uPikEGru-p...@www.framnett.net...
>> On Sun, 13 Jul 3900 12:26:22, "donald tees" <don...@willmack.com> wrote:
>>
> <much snippage>
>>
>> COBOL grew up in the IBM mainframe environment.
>
>Interesting "statement". I know that IBM tendened to "dominate" the
>mainframe world in the early days of COBOL (when "BUNCH" referred to
everyone
>else). HOWEVER, IBM wasn't the first implementation of COBOL - and never
>was the only/primary place that it "grew up".
>

To add to that, I have never programmed on IBM equipment, with the
exception of a contract on a series 1 that I did in PL1. I started Cobol
on a DecSystem10, then a Cyber64, then an H200, then under GCOS.

The first Micro I used it on was an Alto's, running MPM-86, and using
MF Cobol.