On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 18:34:13 +0000, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: >Why Westerns may ride back into town after sunset. > >https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-banks-cobol-idUKKBN17C0DZ > ... The industry appears to be reaching an inflection point, though. In the United States, banks are slowly shifting towards newer languages taking cue from overseas rivals who have already made the switch-over. ... No. History repeats itself. When Java, Python, ... are replaced by yet more stylish languages the problem will recur. But it won't matter to you and me.
Perhaps by then AI will have advanced to where the programs will write themselves. But will they be ethical? "Trusting Trust". "Paperclip Optimizer". ... -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
