On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:47:27 -0500, Jim Elliott, IBM <[email protected]> wrote:
>IMHO, there is probably more business server >application code written in COBOL than any other language still, and I see >no reason for that to change. This is close to the thought that occurred to me when I read it. If the government's I.T. expert, and the departments that apparently agree with her think that COBOL is a problem, at the little ol' government of Canada (OK, maybe not that little), do they not realize that the Earth turns on its axis, financially at least, thanks in great part to COBOL? And if they must change it, in global terms I suppose the world should consider a Y2K-like project but some orders of magnitude larger. Maybe (probably?) this is misreported by the media, but if true, I think they need to be informed of the absurdity. Is someone carrying the flag for COBOL? I hope he/she doesn't prove their point by retiring without a successor! Regards, Mike Baldwin Cartagena Software Limited Markham, Ontario, Canada http://www.cartagena.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
