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/ -Robin --
