Re: COBOL to Java conversion

I find that statement interesting as I, too, have experience in COBOL
and DML on a Univac 1100. And then, until about a year ago we used
a VAX and VMS COBOL here in the CS Department. And, recently, I have
been working with the free Unix COBOL's mostly because I really like
COBOL and still hope someone looking for COBOL experience will find me. :-)

I trimmed the rest, but let me at least say it looked like real good
advice to me!!

Bill, my feeling is that demand for COBOL experience is currently
fairly low. So if you're investing into your career, I would not be
focussing on COBOL.

Some of the answers I seem to predict that I'm looking for advise on
how to convert a COBOL application to Java, THAT IS NOT THE CASE at
all. Maybe someone come up with an answer...

Regards HansJ

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