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Cobol: perception and reality

1997; IEEE Computer Society; Volume: 30; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/2.573683

1558-0814

Edmund C. Arranga, Frank P. Coyle,

Advanced Database Systems and Queries

The authors list the perceptions they have uncovered and counter them with the reality of Cobol. Some of the perceptions are: Cobol is a mainframe language-it has been available on PCs since their inception; Cobol stopped evolving in the 1970s, stopped growing in popularity in the 1980s, and stopped being used to develop client-server and Web-based applications in the 1990s; and Cobol is not an object-oriented language, when, in fact, it has objects galore.