Interesting. If Cobol would be a problem, I would expect most of IBM mainframe shops to develop new applications in (so called) modern languages. I don't see it here in Israel. Most of the new code is still developed in Cobol, Natural and some PL/I. farther more, if you are a mainframe centric shop, it would be so cleaver to distribute your applications when everybody is doing the opposite (server consolidation, green computing, etc.). What I do see is a movement from direct coding to rule engines and code generators. At end, programming will be like tailoring. Experts will develop the rules, and the programmer will just drive the records in and our invoking the rules.
As other wrote, Cobol is just another language in the forest, an easier one to understand. ITschak On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[email protected]>wrote: > a different variation on the COBOL theme > > Moving old code from mainframe to servers > http://www.fiercecio.com/story/moving-old-code-mainframe-servers/2010-04-21 > One firm's story: The mainframe goes, but Cobol stays behind > > http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9175840/One_firm_s_story_The_mainframe_goes_but_Cobol_stays_behind?source=rss_news > > from above: > > A lot of Cobol-based applications have a plot line similar to the first > Star Trek movie. > > In it, the crew of the Enterprise discovers a huge, intelligent cloud > they called "V'ger." It turns out (plot spoiler alert), though, that > V'ger was an unmanned spacecraft called Voyager that had been launched > from Earth some 300 years earlier and then readapted by alien forces. > > ... snip ... > > -- > 42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
