[ale] programming languages

Chris Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Thu Jul 8 13:49:30 EDT 2004


Speaking of Antiques, I just got my AS/400 in the mail and need a little
help configuring it and understanding the basics.  I ordered a book and
it has not arrived.  I have an AS/400, Terminal;, and Twinax to Serial
device.  Any here up to the challange?

On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 13:29, Bridges, Doug wrote:
> 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
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> 
> > 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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