Ok, now I just know I have not had anything interesting, read ANYTHING, to say these days, but I will make an effort to keep updating this blog on a regular basis. I am about to redesign the home pages. The first redesign since I posted them up over 3 years ago. It will include more of my poetry, better pictures and all sorts of neat stuff I've always wanted to try out. My ISP does not have server-side scripting for us poor dial-up/DSL accounts, gotta pay extra for that, so I'm just going to stick to DHTML and XML this go-around.
COBOL
COmmon Business-Oriented Language COBOL is a compiled English-like computer programming language designed for business use. It is an imperative, procedural, and, since 2002, object-oriented language. COBOL is primarily used in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments. COBOL is still widely used in applications deployed on mainframe computers, such as large-scale batch and transaction processing jobs. Many large financial institutions were developing new systems in the language as late as 2006, but most programming in COBOL today is purely to maintain existing applications. Programs are being moved to new platforms, rewritten in modern languages, or replaced with other software. COBOL statements have prose syntax such as MOVE x TO y, which was designed to be self-documenting and highly readable. However, it is verbose and uses over 300 reserved words compared to the succinct and mathematically inspired syntax of other languages. The COBOL code is ...
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