On Thursday 23 June 2011 21:04:45 Robin Atwood did opine thusly: > On Thursday 23 Jun 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > 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 > > It's the latest thing! http://visualcobol.microfocus.com/
I see it this way: Cobol:bank::perl:me Everyone loves to bash both languages but without them absolutely nothing works right :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
