Re: Cobol work?

Christopher Pomasl wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:28:53 -0500, Judson McClendon wrote:
>
>> "Martik" wrote:
>>>
>>> I was not aware anyone used Cobol anymore. ...
>>
>> There's probably still more COBOL code in use than anything else.
>> Unfortunately, the management of most of the corporations and
>> government agencies that are still doing their bread and butter
>> daily stuff on COBOL don't appear to be aware of the fact.
>
> I really think that the thing about it is this....
> The COBOL code that is out there now is stagnant. It is doing what is
> designed for, has its bugs worked out and is a stable base upon which
> businesses are running.
>
> Of the code that is be WRITTEN these days the numbers probably favor
> C and its various flavors, ++ and # on small systems. People are
> leveraging this stability to build new interfaces into old and stable
> infrastuctures. So COBOL really is a hidden commodity in that not
> much progressive work is being done there BUT it is running the
> business of the 00's the same as it ran the business of the 90's
> which ran the business of the 80's.

Likewise a great number of novels are written these days, but few novels are
great. The difference between COBOL programming and C++ is the difference
between Beethoven and Bojangles.

"Small systems?" The smallest of systems today are legions more powerful
than the systems on which much COBOL programming took place.


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