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Subject: Re: COBOL Programmers Transitioning to Smalltalk?
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Could you post an example of OO COBOL? How do you create an object, send
messages, inherit from another class?

Aloha,
David

In <3kudka$q44@icebox.mfltd.co.uk>, Martyn Woerner <mw@mfltd.co.uk> writes:
>From: Mike Gilbert (mhg@mfltd.co.uk)
[snip]

>Object COBOL is COBOL 85 with OO syntax and language support added.
>This has been done along the lines of latest ANSI standard proposals with
>our own experience of OO in other languages to provide a meeting place for
>OO and COBOL. The Object Model in MF Object COBOL is similar to Smalltalk
>and provides a fully flexible OO environment with dynamic message 
>resolution,
>single inheritance, class objects etc.
>
