• To: "Ken North" <kennorth@s...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Standards controversy? (Updating programming languages to support XML)
• From: "Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@b...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:10:04 -0400
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• Thread-topic: Standards controversy? (Updating programming languages to support XML)

What's COBOL?*

Kind Regards,
Joseph Chiusano
Booz Allen Hamilton
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*just kidding - I had my COBOL 101 class way back in the late 80's;) 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken North [mailto:kennorth@s...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 5:41 PM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject:  Standards controversy? (Updating 
> programming languages to support XML)
> 
> It appears adding XML support to the COBOL standard may be 
> more controversial that it was for the SQL 2003 standard.
> 
> Barry Tauber recently wrote "XML and the New COBOL"
> http://www.webservicessummit.com/Trends/COBOL_XML.htm
> 
> The article has raised questions:
> 
> 1. Whether the COBOL standard will move through INCITS and 
> ANSI to become an ISO Fast Track candidate.
> 2. Whether it will win ISO approval. According to William M. 
> Klein,  Germany has questioned whether XML support belongs in 
> the COBOL standard.
> 
> 
> 
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