Re: Some COBOL Links

2020-04-08 Thread Bob Bridges
Am I being unnecessarily cynical to wonder about the risk of taking on new COBOL programmers who "volunteer" to help the state remediate applications that hand out money? --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Law #36 of combat operations: Radar tends to fail at night and

Re: Some COBOL Links

2020-04-08 Thread Matt Hogstrom
I agree, a systematic assessment of the issues should pre-empt acquiring a programming army, unless its really the programs that need to be changed. Their issues could be ranging across a whole swath of issues. their challenges do sound like they would be a bit of fun to understand and remedia

Some COBOL Links

2020-04-08 Thread Reg Harbeck
While I still think the governor of New Jersey probably should be looking at a capacity increase before tempting Brook's Law by adding programmers to a project that is already behind the eight ball, since we all have the opportunity to defend COBOL to people who are temporarily listening, here are