OmniScript and Other Languages

As I shared in my last post, OmniScript is a proprietary, server-side, interpreted scripting language for the OmniPlus System, a COBOL based financial application. Like any language, as I've been learning, OmniScript has it's strengths and weaknesses. There are some things it naturally does very well in dealing with the data structure of the OmniPlus system, and, as I've been learning about other languages, I'm seeing some of OmniScript's limitations (at least with my limited knowledge anyway).

Language Learning

In college I took two years of Greek. I found learning this ancient language, with it's different letters,fascinating. One interesting thing I found was that learning Greek had the added benefit of helping me with my English. The fresh experience of seeing grammatical concepts in Greek gave me a better understanding of similar concepts in English that I had taken for granted for the most part.

When it comes to OmniScript, my early understanding of BASIC helped to prepare me, and as I've spent time since learning Java and a little Python, that has given me a clearer understanding of the concepts I'm using in OmniScript. Studying Java through Stanford's Programming Methodology course online has made me a better OmniScripter. It's interesting to learn and compare the similarities and differences in languages and it makes me a better writer of whatever language I'm working with.

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