[Gambas-user] OT:Very nice compliments for gambas :))

[Rob]

On Wednesday 25 August 2004 11:53, Philip A. Chapman wrote:
> # Only capital letters can be used. Some characters in the
> ASCII range 0-32 are normal characters for COBOL

I've worked with a number of different COBOL flavors, but all 
Unix or Windows based.  While they all had most of the 
restrictions you mention, I haven't seen one that was case 
sensitive (even though most COBOL programmers still have the 
caps lock key on when they're programming.)  Is this still a 
mainframe thing or just the way it used to be?

Incidentally, one of my clients has a pretty sizable VB app that 
has been blocking their attempts to roll out a Linux desktop, 
and in the last 2 weeks of part time work (20 hours a week or 
thereabouts) I have rewritten 90% of it in Gambas without even 
the aid of any auto-conversion perl scripts.  This includes a 
fully functional double buffered green screen terminal, and ssh 
(over a pipe) and raw socket connections all over the place.  I 
really think Gambas is ready for production environments at this 
point.

Rob