WELCOME to minds of COBOL ,

Day by day ,I am getting buried into the vast lines of COBOL coding and coding ..... !

I could hardly gave a thought to start a new blog for newbie COBOL minds
( programmers ).


Below given are the links can help you :

So, why late ... " GO " >>>>>

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Links that Click :-

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COBOL ARTICLES >> ( collected for various "IT magzines" )

JOB SEARCH TIPS >>( for a COBOL/Mainframe guy )

COBOL COMPILERS >>

Quick FAQs about COBOL >> (interview-based)

COBOL QUESTIONS & ANSWERS >>

COBOL TUTORIALS (pdf's) >>

The COBOL Language Overview :

What Is COBOL?
COBOL is a standard language for business software, a job that it does well. It is
heavily used in the mainframe world. COBOL has an undeserved reputation for inefficiency, and a deserved reputation for verbosity.
Today, many COBOL applications are being moved from mainframes to UNIX boxes.

Portability:-
Deaf, dumb, blind COBOL programs can be very portable. Otherwise you can use external libraries to achieve 100% portability (catch: you may have to write these libraries
yourself).

Pros and Cons:-
Pros: easy to use and teach. An excellent language for mediocre developers, which
includes me at least two days of the week.
Cons: Tends to encourage large, monolithic programs. Like unreadable C code, this is
a question of discipline.