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Re: Female Computer Pioneers - May 7

#99798
From: michael.wojcik@m
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 17:17
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In article <slrn8hgdf1.e96.jmaynard@thebrain.conmicro.cx>, jmaynard@thebrain.conmicro.cx (Jay Maynard) writes:

> On Mon, 08 May 2000 21:43:20 -0400, Carl R. Friend
> <carl.friend@prescienttech.com> wrote:

> >   One word:  "COBOL".
> >   In a few more: "The right tool for the job."

> Is there a Visual Cobol?
> You know, one that lets you design screens and hook code to specific events
> wihtout having to write mountains of boilerplate message handlers and the
> like?

Of course.  We've had such a product (currently called "NetExpress")
for years.  GUI screen-painting, code-generating development system;
IDE; all that nonsense.  I understand some of our competitors
(Fujitsu, etc.) have similar offerings, but I don't work on the COBOL
side of the house, so I couldn't say for certain.

Given the still-huge COBOL market, it would be rather surprising if
this sort of thing wasn't available.


--
Michael Wojcik          	        michael.wojcik@merant.com
AAI Development, MERANT                 (block capitals are a company mandate)
Department of English, Miami University

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his hand, and he is hoist by his own petard, and finds himself a marked man.
   -- attributed to a "small-town newspaper editor in Wisconsin"

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