Daniel McLaughlin wrote:
COBOL isn't sexy anymore. High schools are teaching PC stuff. And yet a
myriad of code being used is on our mainframes.
Well, COBOL isn't _percieved_ as sexy anymore.
But you can handle ASCII and UNICODE and XML in COBOL.
You can code COBOL CGIs to run under your z/OS HTTP.
What's sexier than the web these days?
I once automated myself out of a support job.
I am a dinosaur.
I know the feeling. But we gotta' learn how to do
the new stuff on the mainframe, and let management
see it.
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