RE: [PD] QUICKBASIC

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as soon as my work on the COBOL plug in is done :-)

COBOL?!?! Wow.

Excellent!

I worked on a project a few years ago designing and building a java/web front end to a whole load of COBOL for a big pensions company. I had to learn enough COBOL to figure out what the code was doing - no docs because some of this code had been in active service for 20 years being modified and patched over time. Mental.

COBOL is a mighty strange language it looks like (in pseudo code terms):

move value to memory location 
multiply memory location by value 
calculate tax returns 
add memory locations together 

this is a slight exageration but not much - its like machine language with stratosphericly high level operations built in.

Its also really hard to get your head round if you are used to programing modern languages. Scary stuff.

cheers

mark