Oh yeah, forgot to mention. The new language will be called Parabola. From: "Ken Seehof" <kens at sightreader.com> > Actually, COBOL has been a largely overlooked language. It was once > one of the most important programming languages on the planet. It would > be unfortunate to disregard its usefulness just because it is old. The > Parrot > designers need to take this venerable language into account. Among the > many features of COBOL that have been lost in recent years are line numbers > and columnar structure (the latter having been kept in some versions of > FORTRAN). XML would allow the actual column arrangement to be decided > later in a style sheet. Maybe something like this: > > <WORK-AREAS column=01> > <ARE-THERE-MORE-RECORDS column=05 heading=PIC=X(3) VALUE='YES'.> > <IMPLEMENTATION column=08> > <for> > <controlvariable>line</controlvariable> > <iteratorlist>getlines</iteratorlist> > <body> > <statement> > <print>line</print> > </statement> > </body> > </for> > </IMPLEMENTATION> > </WORK-AREAS> > <NO-MORE-RECORDS column=88 VALUE ='NO '> > .. > > We need to learn to combine the best of both the old and the new.
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