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Y2K Startup 1996-2000
A brief history of Deskware, Inc. By Matt Dean co-founder
What did we do? – We wrote a Microsoft Windows based piece of software to reverse-engineer COBOL, Mainframe Assembler, PL-1, and RPG source code.
VACE allowed programmers to open up legacy source code files, quickly edit the code, and dynamically see the structure of the program.
VACE was actively marketed from 10/01/1997
– 12/16/2006
Respective Customers:
City of Knoxville Bechtel Corp. Washington MillsThurau & Co. GMBH
State Library of Queensland Simon & Wiesel
Purdue University Old Dominion Data Systems
Waukesha State Bank
Westpeak Investment Cisco Systems GMAC
American Electric Power
Lakeshore Group, Ltd
Fort Wayne Newspapers
Dell Gulf South Medical Supply
Harvard Medical School
Northern Trust Bank Intel Caribbean
TransportationPerez Abreu Company US Postal Service Pacific Service
Credit UnionSun Yet-Sen Cancer Center
Amway Corporation Asplundh
IBM Cooper Tire Sweetheart Cup Company
Adventist Health Care Systems NCR Taiwan, R.O.C.
Not exactly a dot-com startup…
“The garage is the space for the hacker, the tinkerer, the
maker. The garage is not defined by a single field or
industry; instead, it is defined by the eclectic
interests of its inhabitants. It is a space where
intellectual networks converge.”
― Steven Johnson, How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
After the Y2K crisis…After Y2K we realized we had developed some very good source code parsers for the
COBOL programming language, and created the
first COBOL based interpreter.
IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: Computer programs for use in developing and executing other
computer programs on computers, computer networks, and local communications networks, and
instruction manual sold therewith. FIRST USE: 19991005. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19991005
What is cobolscript?
• CobolScript is a COBOL based scripting language. Anyone who already knows COBOL can easily use CobolScript to build server-side scripts with virtually no learning curve. CobolScript has familiar COBOL syntax and is ideal for data conversion, batch interfaces, and server-side scripting. CobolScript is cross-platform compatible, with versions for the following operating systems: MS Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CobolScript
Cobolscript – going forward
•The cobolscript interpreter is currently being maintained by Matt Dean. He is currently uplifting the cobolscript language from version 3.1 to version 4.0. Feel free to reach out to him for more information.
THANK YOU
Feel free to reach out to me regarding this content or questions you might have.
Best Regards,
Matt [email protected]://www.linkedin.com/in/mjdean1/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CobolScript
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