Standards groups clear way for OO Cobol; industry taking wait-and-see attitude toward feasibility. (object orientation) (CASE: Object-Oriented Development Toolkits) From: Software Magazine | Date: March 1, 1991| Author: Harding, Elizabeth U. | COPYRIGHT 1991 Wiesner Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Object-oriented Cobol may be develop more rapidly than expected because the American National Standards Institute (Ansi) has agreed to merge with the Conference on Data System Languages (Codasyl) and the Object Oriented Cobol Task Group (OOCTG). The pooling of resources is expected to speed standardization, but while some analysts anticipate a good market response, others believe that object-orientation (OO) could merely muddle Cobol because it is not well understood. Some experts do not beli...