Python v COBOL

[Skaperen]

what would we need to do to python to make a suitable basis for tossing out COBOL besides cleaning the sticky sugar out of their shift keys and making money expression formatting?

[Larz60+]

Believe it or not, there are still companies out there using Cobol
There are also people still driving Hudsons and Studibakers.

[sparkz_alot]

I'd still like to see Qbasic included in Windows  

[Larz60+]

Before Qbasic there was Dartmouth basic where syntax dictated that
let x = 3 worked, and x= 3 didn't

I almost hate to admit it, but in 1975, I wrote a magazine article using Dartmouth basic
(It's still available on archive.org)

[ichabod801]

I wrote a Python interpreter for Dartmouth basic (technically BASIC).

[Skaperen]

I wrote a Python interpreter for Dartmouth basic (technically BASIC).

so now we can run all our old Dartmouth basic programs on any platform that runs python?

[Larz60+]

for x = 1 to oh maybe 100 ...

[Skaperen]

the idea is that python is easier than cobol, except for the pic feature, which could be added on.

[Larz60+]

s9v999 Never want to go there anymore

[Skaperen]

s9v999 Never want to go there anymore

but some people are stuck there.  i remember doing a couple cobol classes in college.  i needed an easy boost of my gpa.