On Thursday 23 June 2011 19:16:08 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:23:58 +0200, pk wrote: > > It refuses to die because it's still very useful in certain > > niche areas (hpc, numerical computing etc.) where "modern" > > languages doesn't cut it... :-) > > Or so the Fortran programmers with jobs to protect will tell you... > > You'll be telling us there's still a place for Cobol next :-O
Of course there's a place for Cobol, a classic one is in the bank my gf does data warehousing at. There's not a single soul in the entire bank that is willing to sign off on a project to replace the Cobol that has run justfinethanksverymuch for 25+ years -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
