{"id":382,"date":"2009-12-15T13:35:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T12:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/?p=382"},"modified":"2009-12-15T13:35:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T12:35:44","slug":"cobol-vb-csharp-compared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/cobol-vb-csharp-compared\/","title":{"rendered":"A Comparison Of .Net COBOL, Visual Basic and C#"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today my collegues Robert and Alex have finally \ud83d\ude42 decided to publish a document that compares Visual Basic, C# and COBOL for .Net under <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.5\/\">The Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than doing a cut-paste job, here is a quote from alex, along with a link to the &#8220;real&#8221; article itself.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Alex Turner said:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>A Comparison Of .Net COBOL, Visual Basic and C#<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are a COBOL programmer wanting to learn C# or a VB programmer wanting to learn COBOL as a .net language (or any other combination of VB.net, C# and COBOL) then this is a good place to start. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are a COBOL programmer wanting to learn C# or a VB programmer wanting to learn COBOL as a .net language (or any other combination of VB.net, C# and COBOL) then this is a good place to start.<\/p>\n<p>It has often been noted that the richness of the COBOL language in its Micro Focus .net implementation is not well known. Robert Sales and I have worked on this document to help bring the language to peoples&#8217; attention and to help people who need to work with COBOL on the .net platform.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codeproject.com\/KB\/net-languages\/COBOLvsVBvsCSharp.aspx\">Click here to continue reading the rest of the article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today my collegues Robert and Alex have finally \ud83d\ude42 decided to publish a document that compares Visual Basic, C# and COBOL for .Net under The Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Rather than doing a cut-paste job, here is a quote &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/cobol-vb-csharp-compared\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,32,34],"tags":[74,209,77,184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}