Re: [open-cobol-list] Fortran and Cobol type systems

[john Culleton]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 20:05:38 -0400
Patrick <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Everyone
> 
> There are some things I miss from Ada when I
> program in Cobol. Ada has facilities to match
> Ada and Cobol types through their
> interfaces.cobol package and I can use Ada but
> there are some things I don't like about Ada
> too.
> 
> Now I am thinking that the strong typing and
> user defined types from Fortran will be enough
> for me.
> 
> It looks like Fortran strings are padded right
> with spaces and that is encouraging. Does
> anyone know if the numeric and non-numeric type
> systems match well ?
> 
> Brian has a neat Fortran-Cobol example on his
> site but it does not use an extensive set of
> types and I haven't been able to come up with
> much otherwise.
> 
> Thanks for reading-Patrick
> 
> 
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I will just remind all about the words of Grace
Murray Hopper (quoted from memory): "I don't ask
FORTRAN to do the work of COBOL nor COBOL to do
the work of FORTRAN."

If you want a combination of COBOL and FORTRAN
consider the history of PL/I, launched with great
fanfare and the full support of then mighty IBM. I
once owned a copy of the (ponderous) official
standard for PL/I.  It disappeared in a few
years.

-- 
John Culleton
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