Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!hellgate.utah.edu!helios.ee.lbl.gov!ucsd!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hp-ses!hpcuhb!hpcllla!hpclisp!hpcll17!juliar From: juliar@hpcll17.HP.COM (Julia Rodriguez) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: comp.lang.cobol Message-ID: <1810004@hpcll17.HP.COM> Date: 27 Nov 89 23:59:20 GMT References: <480@enea.se> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab Lines: 18 There is a lot of new language development going on for COBOL. I am a member of X3J4, the committee responsible for development of the ANSI/ISO standard for COBOL. The committee completed a full revision of the standard in 1985. It completed an addendum to add intrinsic functions to the standard this year. In addition, the committee has approved work items for 3 more addenda: a corrections addendum fixing minor errors introduced by the 1985 standard, an addendum adding functionality for internationalization, and one for Forms Interface Management. The committee has just begun work on the next full revision of the standard. The current schedule contains a completion date of 1999, but I think that the standard won't be out until 200x. I expect that COBOL will be alive and well at that time. Julia Rodriguez Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com