Re: [cobol-dev] Termination Review complete

[Jens Doll <jd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

the termination of the project is not a surprise, because the whole 
project seemed to me like a mockup. When I joined the list in 2003, I 
offered support to the members instantaneously, but did not get a single 
reply for that. I then investigated the available download and found 
out, that it was not complete and asked the committers for a reason. 
They told me, that only the Linux download would work. I also tried that 
one and was deeply disappointed, because it lacked the same or similar 
problems. It looks as if there has never been a publicly available 
download of the COBOL plugin, which really worked.

Also the programmers had disappeared and only the committers stayed in 
the project. It had something of Potjomkin's village. So I went my own 
way and had in mind, to combine my project with Eclipse later on, but 
not a single programmer appeared and I began to reason about open source 
projects. These projects only make sense, if independent and motivated 
people are willing to build something for the community and also take 
responsability for their project. That was not the case here in the 
Eclipse COBOL project. Also COBOL is becoming less and less important 
for most of the programmers.

Thus I continue in building my generalized language environment, which 
started from COBOL and is formally speaking close to goto programs from 
computer science. I also have a good mathematical foundation and can see 
something beautiful at the horizon, which is close to axiomatic computer 
science. It might become very different from the code desert, which we 
all live in at the moment. Our machines are programmed like Babylon's 
tower was built and we aren't so far away from a technological 
breakdown. [Young people often don't find orientation in a world, where 
hardware and software standards are just and only a word. How will your 
grandchildren talk about the world in 2010?]

So this is, what I have and it is perhaps interesting:

a)  a working GUI*
b) a draft of a well founded theory

Is anyone out there willing to   c o l l a b o r a t e   and establish a 
new open source project?

Jens
http://cococo.de

* the GUI is called Elbe:
http://cococo.de/Context_IT_GmbH/index.jsp?content=elbe