[Python-Dev] an alternative language for CP4E, perhaps?

[Jack Jansen]

> http://www.cobolscript.com/
> 
>     "[COBOL's] just a language whose superiority for
>     developing certain types of modern systems has
>     been overlooked until now"

The whole site sort-of makes me wonder whether this is one big elaborate joke. 
But if it is somebody put an incredible amount of work in it.

The funny thing is that the idea of using Cobol for web-programming _did_ 
initially strike me as a neat idea: because of the elaborate data descriptions 
and report generation facilities you could conceivably use all that info to 
automatically generate all the input forms and such. But they have apparently 
done no such thing...

The timesheet example is, uhm, interesting. 1500 lines of code, with many 
parameters hardcoded in the source. I'd be surprised if it would take more 
than 100 lines in Python, with a lot more customizability too.
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