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WHAT'S PAST IS PROLOGUE: THE FUTURE OF COBOL by David E. MacFarland COMPILER BACKGROUND
Those involved in "the great COBOL debate" might worry that my affiliation with The COBOL Foundation makes me hopelessly biased.
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Cobol: an Old Dog, New Tricks
COBOL: AN OLD DOG, NEW TRICKS by Frank P. Coyle
Boring, stodgy, wordy, mainframe-bound -- these are but a few of the slings and arrows that COBOL has endured over the past decade.
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Replace Cobol with Objects? Not!
REPLACE COBOL WITH OBJECTS? NOT! by Mike Gilbert THE STING
Picture Jim, an IS manager facing typical challenges in updating his company's information systems.
COBOL LEGACY PROGRAMS SERVE THE FUTURE by Elizabeth Spangler Flint
Today the computing community is faced with the decision whether to move existing software into a client-server environment.
COBOL IN 2010: MAINSTREAM OR MEMORY? by John M.
COBOL AND THE REAL WORLD: DEALING WITH THE ENTERPRISE BUSINESS APPLICATION PROGRAMMING LEGACY by Jonathan Sayles
This article is about the real world of enterprise business application programming. It also happens to be about COBOL.
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Regrouping for Groupware
REGROUPING FOR GROUPWARE by Jonathan Grudin THE ELUSIVE GROUP
Groupware would appear to require groups.
PLATFORMS FOR COOPERATIVE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT by Igor Hawryszkiewycz and Ian Gorton INTRODUCTION
In an earlier report [3], we described the benefits of using computer communication services to support distributed software development teams.