Re: [open-cobol-list] Best online and text tutorials?

[John Culleton]

On Monday 11 August 2008 01:03:51 pm Brian Tiffin wrote:
> Well spoken John.  I'll agree as well.  The short hello was an
> exercise in possibilities, not good form or professionalism.  That
> sample is highlighting OpenCOBOL's robost and wide coverage, more
> than good practise.  And, when it unveils soon, you will see the
> Hello World that occurs in most of the FAQ is more inline with
> historically easy to read COBOL (and even includes sequence
> numbers).
>
>     000100* HELLO.COB OpenCOBOL FAQ example
>     000200 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
>     000300 PROGRAM-ID. hello.
>     000400 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
>     000500     DISPLAY "Hello World!".
>     000600     STOP RUN.
>
> The exercise was partly the result of a thread on the forum caused
> in response to a very misleading technology "architect"'s blog
> entry and a comment about not being able to count the number of
> lines in a Hello World program.
>
> http://duckdown.blogspot.com/2008/06/mainframe-is-not-evil-but-cobo
>l-is.html
>

Visited the blog but couldn't figure out quickly how to post a reply.  
There were many misstatements, on data typing and so on.  Java is 
fading in importance now that Php is available for web use.  
-- 
John Culleton
Resources for every author and publisher:
http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf
http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf
http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm
http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm