[ale] programming languages

[Bridges, Doug]

COBOL is a really nasty language that I would not recommend learning. It is primarily used on mainframes and is not a modern programming language in any sense.  There are jobs out there that utilize COBOL, but many of them are to help move COBOL systems into other languages.  The number of COBOL jobs is declining and will continue to decline.  It is just unsure whether the number of COBOL programmers is declining at a faster rate.

CORBA is a very useful tool to know, but it is not an stand-alone programming language.  CORBA is a system for communications between multiple programs regardless of what computer they are on or what language they were written in.  CORBA uses its own language (IDL) to define the interface for communications with a program.  The CORBA compiler then compiles the IDL into a form that your programming language can utilize.  CORBA and IDL can be extremely complex (or at least it was when I was using it).  Thus,
you will need to know some other type of programming language that will interface with the CORBA system.

Doug Bridges

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of Ryan
Williams
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 1:06 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] programming languages


> I know that since many legacy systems are in use in Universities such 
> as UGA or KSU, you will find C, C++, Cobol and Perl used to glue stuff 
> together.  CORBA is used at KSU to help in gluing stuff together.  
> Can't think of anything else at the moment.

How does Cobol and CORBA compare to the other languages?

Ryan

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