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Isn't that part of a library? Not part of a language? 
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Precisely.
If the language has it in its library, all is well, or, at least may be well.
If it doesn't, it isn't, shouldn't, and won't.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"How do you find out if you're unwanted if everyone you try to ask tells you to stop bothering them and just go away?" - Balboos HaGadol
"It's a sad state of affairs, indeed, when you start reading my tag lines for some sort of enlightenment. Sadder still, if that's where you need to find it." - Balboos HaGadol
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So... if the library is accessable from COBOL...
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From My Post:
". . . at least may be well."
i.e., necessary, but not necessarily sufficient;
Please refer to CListCtrl postings from prior Lounge-wear/ware/where for a suitable explanation that may well assuage your confused state.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"How do you find out if you're unwanted if everyone you try to ask tells you to stop bothering them and just go away?" - Balboos HaGadol
"It's a sad state of affairs, indeed, when you start reading my tag lines for some sort of enlightenment. Sadder still, if that's where you need to find it." - Balboos HaGadol
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I'd be right in there with the crowd who prefers their favorite language but will work in others if only I had a favoriate language. I've yet to find one that isn't obstructively klunky in some way or another, but they are all balanced by being sublimely elegant in some other way.
patbob
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patbob wrote: balanced by being sublimely elegant in some other way.
... except COBOL. 
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You know about the OO dialect of COBOL, right?
ADD_ONE_TO_COBOL_GIVING_COBOL
Henry in Ottawa
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I suppose.
Need software developed? Offering C# development all over the United States, ERL GLOBAL, Inc is the only call you will have to make.
If you don't ask questions the answers won't stand in your way.
Most of this sig is for Google, not ego.
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Admittedly I never worked with Ada, but it looks like a very well designed language to me, and has a nice syntax as well. Why don't you like it?
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Had to use it in comparative languages in college. Absolute nightmare to do complicated stuff that should have been easy.
Need software developed? Offering C# development all over the United States, ERL GLOBAL, Inc is the only call you will have to make.
If you don't ask questions the answers won't stand in your way.
Most of this sig is for Google, not ego.
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VB.Net is my favorite. Can't stand ADA. Or Pascal for that matter. COBOL is the WORST. Rots your brain right away.... ;~) 
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Owen37 wrote: Rots your brain right away
And VB does so more slowly?
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It's not VB.Net that rots your brain, It's Intellisense. VB.Net is an excellent language with a bad stigma. C# is a C++/Java wanna-be language. Admittedly, C# is a decent language, but it's not all it's hyped to be. Anyone who wants to code the machine can attest to that. 
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Ha! Didn't think it would take long for the anti-VB zealots to crawl out of the woodwork. 
Kevin
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Not wanting to do it does not make me an anti-vb zealot.
Need software developed? Offering C# development all over the United States, ERL GLOBAL, Inc is the only call you will have to make.
If you don't ask questions the answers won't stand in your way.
Most of this sig is for Google, not ego.
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No, I suppose not. But there are quite a few zealots here nonetheless.
Kevin
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Ha! Didn't think it would take long for the anti-COBOL zealots to ooze out of the slime...
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I've never used COBOL and have barely even seen it so I really can't comment. I confess to being an anti-Perl zealot though.
Kevin
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Learned COBOL in 2 weeks. It is great for what it was designed for, writing reports. I agree with you on Perl. Who the hell write functions like q(), qq(), qw(), qr() and qx() and expects anyone without Perl function guide to understand their function?
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My impression of Perl was formed from having to maintain some code about 8 years ago that had zero comments and in many places a lack of indentation. The original developer was not available and no-one else was at all familiar with the code. I always went home at the end of the day in a foul mood. 
Nonetheless I admit that Perl is very good at what it does. But today if I was asked to do Perl-like tasks and I had a choice of technology I would opt for Python or Ruby. The latter in particular is partly sold as a "better Perl."
Kevin
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Where I work, we have legacy applications running in FORTran and C, desktop applications written in various flavours of VB and web applications written in classic ASP with VBScript and JavaScript.
On the database end, we have Ingres for legacy applications, SQLServer for more 'current' applications, and, in corporate, Oracle.
So, we work in what is required for the time, and, largely, leave the language wars to those that don't have anything better to do.
Tim
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Tim Carmichael wrote: leave the language wars to those that don't have anything better to do
But they're good fun, although totally pointless.
Kevin
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Didn't answer the poll, because in fact I have two favourite languages, java and c++.
Just thinking, this would be a good place to have a language flame war. Surprised no one has started yet, maybe cp-ers are too mature for that type of thing 
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ed welch wrote: maybe cp-ers are too mature for that type of thing
I don't know about that. You'll find there's quite a lot of hatred of VB and Java. Re: the latter I guess it's because CP is MS-centric. Re: the former I guess it's because there's a big contingent of actual or ex-C++ developers.
Kevin
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I work to get payed so I can do whatever I like on my own time 
I try to work where I like and using the technologies I want but if I get a very good offer on a not so cool technology I will certainly take it!
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