ANSI 2002 approved? 1

[Truusvlugindewind]

Hi,

A collegue told me that for 2 weeks now the new ANSI 2002 COBOL standard is approved!

Can anyone confirm this? I saw nothing in the press and nothing on the net. This "great" news, isn't it. After all, the first ANSI O-O language!

 

[Dimandja]

Well, according to

http://cobolexpo.com/boardpress.html,

"The newest ANSI/ISO Cobol Standard, Cobol 2002, with support for the Web, components, and other best-in-breed language constructs, will be introduced at Cobol Expo 2002!".

While MicroFocus claims: COBOL 2002 adds significant new features to the COBOL language including: User Defined Functions, Object Orientation, Dynamic Memory Allocation,
Binary and Floating Point Data Types, User Definition of Data Types, etc...

http://www.microfocus.com/press/news/20011127.asp

 

[StephenJSpiro]

The International Standards Organization (ISO/IEC) has approved the new standard; the approval process is still going on for ANSI, but it almost certainly will be approved before year-end.

Unfortunately, ISO is asserting a copyright on the new standard. However, once the standard is issued with the copyright claim, I, personally, will file a criminal complaint (with the United States Justice Department) of fraud and theft of intellectual property against the ISO Secretariat. Possibly against others as well.

They have been warned.

INCITS has covered itself on this. For an UNcopyrighted and downloadable copy of the Final Draft Information Standard, go to

http://www.incits.org/tc_home/j4.htm

Stephen J Spiro
Wizard Systems