>> OO COBOL is based on Smalltalk.
Thought you'd like to know.
At least, one version that was being
pushed at OOSLA 1995 was. <<

That would be kind of difficult
since COBOL does not have the
dynamic nature of Smalltalk.
It looked more like Java OOP
in the manual I flipped thru
(faster thru the OOP chapter :-)

>> Least its a job. <<

Yip.

It could get me into some other
gov job, being that a lot of
COBOLer's are retiring and
the gov cannot kick the COBOL
habit. Not that I like the gov atmosphere
that much, but it is harder to
can me for speaking my mind there. I just
have to shut up long enuf to
get "tenure".

I am studying IMS now. Itsa hierarchical
database from the 60's I believe.
The examples in the IMS manuals
remind me of OOP inheritance modeling
examples.

I go back to the 60's and STILL
cannot get away from OOP ????!!!!

If a tree falls down in a forest,
will it warp-fall to another decade?