[quote user="aadowns2"]I am coming from a C#/VB.Net and old Cobol program language user. I am teaching myself .net cobol. What do you mean by cobol.net portable list syntax?[/quote] For a while now (I don't remember which release introduced this), COBOL.NET has supported this syntax for lists: define student as list[Student] create student write student from aStudent This is perhaps a bit more self-documenting, and it's portable to COBOL for JVM as well. Some people like it; some don't care for it. There's similar support for dictionaries. You can find more information here: http://documentation.microfocus.com:8080/help/topic/com.microfocus.eclipse.infocenter.enterprisedeveloper.eclipsewin/GUID-5ACBB846-3B81-45EE-B6B5-45E103397C04.html See in particular the topic comparing COBOL.NET with other .NET languages and the reference topics for the create, read, and write statements. I think there may also be samples of the portable syntax available in the Samples Browser. [Edited to fix horrible styling imposed by the new site stylesheets. Why can't we provide a stylesheet and editor geared toward entering source code? You know, the thing we're generally talking about here?]
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