Saved from my old blog c/o the Internet Archive:
"Enterprise COBOL supports Java™-based object-oriented syntax to facilitate the interoperation of COBOL and Java programs." | |
This is just too good not to share | |
DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 CURR-ARG-COUNT PIC 9(9) BINARY VALUE ZERO. LINKAGE SECTION. 01 ARG-COUNT PIC 9(9)BINARY. 01 ARG-LENGTH-LIST. 05 ARG-LENGTH-ADDR POINTER OCCURS 1 TO 99999 DEPENDING ON CURR-ARG-COUNT. 01 ARG-LIST. 05 ARG-ADDR POINTER OCCURS 1 TO 99999 DEPENDING ON CURR-ARG-COUNT. 01 ARG-LENGTH PIC 9(9) BINARY. 01 ARG PIC X(65536). PROCEDURE DIVISION USING ARG-COUNT ARG-LENGTH-LIST ARG-LIST.That's Enterprise COBOL for main(int ac, char *av[]). But you ain't seen nothin' yet... you thought ADD ONE TO COBOL GIVING COBOL was a joke: CBL DLL,THREAD,PGMNAME(LONGMIXED) IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. CLASS-ID. ACCOUNT INHERITS BASE. * ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. CONFIGURATION SECTION. REPOSITORY. CLASS BASE IS "java.lang.OBJECT" CLASS ACCOUNT IS "Account". * IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. FACTORY. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 NUMBER-OF-ACCOUNTS PIC 9(6) VALUE ZERO. * ... * OBJECT. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 ACCOUNTNUMBER PIC 9(6). 01 ACCOUNTBALANCE PIC S9(9) VALUE ZERO. * PROCEDURE DIVISION. * IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. METHOD-ID. "getBalance". DATA DIVISION. LINKAGE SECTION. 01 OUTBALANCE PIC S9(9) BINARY. * PROCEDURE DIVISION RETURNING OUTBALANCE. MOVE ACCOUNTBALANCE TO OUTBALANCE. END METHOD "getBalance". * ... * END OBJECT. * END CLASS ACCOUNT. |