Can anybody chis correct google search with its nonsense like below?
In 1981 I started with Realia COBOL 2.0 and it was already able to do dynamic memory allocation. It had a machine level interface so one was for example able to read the status of the keyboard. I had a program that opened a backdoor when both shift keys were pushed at the same time. Only recursion was not possible with that compiler at that time within its own run-unit, but calling itself by accessing the exe file, was not a problem..... On the other hand, it can be easy but it is almost never really important and allocating memory that is not there anymore, is often generating errors.....
When you open a file, the record definition is normally dynamically allocated, also since the earliest compilers....
I am a bit tired of COBOL bashing by people that don't know almost nothing about anything like Google seems to do here.
Thanks for anyone reading this!
Why is COBOL not popular?
Compared to common programming languages today, COBOL is different, and in some ways very limited: you can't do dynamic memory allocation, you can't easily access low-level features of the operating system or particular computer architecture. The most common forms of the language can't use recursion.20 Apr 2020
In 1981 I started with Realia COBOL 2.0 and it was already able to do dynamic memory allocation. It had a machine level interface so one was for example able to read the status of the keyboard. I had a program that opened a backdoor when both shift keys were pushed at the same time. Only recursion was not possible with that compiler at that time within its own run-unit, but calling itself by accessing the exe file, was not a problem..... On the other hand, it can be easy but it is almost never really important and allocating memory that is not there anymore, is often generating errors.....
When you open a file, the record definition is normally dynamically allocated, also since the earliest compilers....
I am a bit tired of COBOL bashing by people that don't know almost nothing about anything like Google seems to do here.
Thanks for anyone reading this!
Why is COBOL not popular?
Compared to common programming languages today, COBOL is different, and in some ways very limited: you can't do dynamic memory allocation, you can't easily access low-level features of the operating system or particular computer architecture. The most common forms of the language can't use recursion.20 Apr 2020
