Cyrus Montakab Blog - modernization tag

From COBOL Data-Types to Java/C# Primitive data-types

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:45:00 GMT

This is a continuation of my earlier blog - asking what would be the desirable characteristics of a COBOL program - rewritten in OO Java or C#. I followed that post with a description of first steps to go from Structured data definitions into an Object-Oriented design.

In this posting, we'll look at what can happen to all the data-items, COBOL redefinitions, COMP variables and etc.

Happy 50th Birthday to COBOL

Sun, 31 May 2009 20:48:00 GMT

People get very religious about Computing languages. C# vs Java, VB vs Delphi, C++ and LISP. But quite frankly, I somehow never expected developers to treat COBOL as a religion: No object-orientation (not one which has been accepted or used), no exception handling, and allowing lots of bad practices: GO-TOs, REDEFINES ...

From COBOL Data-Section to an OO Design

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:40:00 GMT

This is a continuation of my earlier blog - asking what would be the desirable characteristics of a COBOL program - rewritten in OO Java or C#.

In the first step we discussed the necessity for Semantic Translation.

In the next section I would like to discuss the importance of OO in design of data-sections. (I will discuss OO in business logic section a bit later).