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From: schultz@grebyn.com (Ronald Schultz)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: OO Implementations in COBOL
Keywords: COBOL, OO, OOD, OOA
Message-ID: <19358@grebyn.com>
Date: 9 Feb 90 14:00:19 GMT
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing, Vienna, VA
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Many consultants are stating to us poor MIS types that object-
oriented analysis and possibly design are implementable in even
the unholiest of languages, ie. COBOL.  Is an object-oriented
design implementable in COBOL?  If so, how?

The solutions I see are either extremely inefficient to the point
of unworkable, or so complex as to not be worthwhile.  Ny
thoughts would be sincerely appreciated.

No flames please and serious replies only.  I don't need any
language bigots going berserk right now!  I'm sorry about
discussing COBOL in COMP.OBJECT, but 70 billion lines of code can
not be dismissed by a paradigm shift, and if OO is so great,
somehow there has to be a means of demonstrating this superiority
to an MIS shop, even if it is in COBOL.

Ron Schultz
schultz@grebyn.com