Grace Hopper would be proud...! Charles S. Kammer
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Ross Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 12:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: (fwd) Re: Is IT becoming extinct? >(I believe this was a major factor in the demise of COBOL; I just cannot resist responding to this (sorry I am so late, I was out of the office for 2 weeks). I work on the IBM COBOL compiler, and if you could see the amount of interest, the number of compiler licenses, the sheer number of COBOL programmers on IBM Mainframes doing new work everyday in COBOL, you would never say such a thing. For example, we are being overwhelmed with requests to continue our improvements for XML support in COBOL, it has been the most quickly adopted new feature of COBOL in my quarter century as an IBM COBOL compiler developer. COBOL is more alive today than it was 10 years ago! Demise indeed... Cheers, TomR >> COBOL is the Language of the Future! << ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
