[Cialug] Programming languages: next 10 yrs

[Kyle H]

Nice write up, agreed.

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 1:03 PM Bill Davis <bill.davis at gmail.com> wrote:

> No, COBOL is not dead. Don't hold your breath, either.
>
> We still have COBOL at the State. New development IS occurring. They
> actually asked me to help out with it a few years back, as they were
> overloaded/short handed and my supervisor recalled seeing it on my resume.
> I pointed out that hadn't worked in COBOL since maybe 1985. They were ok
> with that.  It actually came back fairly well. Even remembered at bit of
> JCL.
>
> And a web site I maintain talks to a mainframe-based web service written
> in COBOL that pull data off the mainframe database. I took over maintenance
> of the COBOL web service side, too, a while back when the developer left. I
> originally just did the Java-side (JSP) work for the web site.  Neither
> side is needing too many changes at this point.
>
> Lots of other languages are in use here too. I've done a bit of Ruby/Rails
> some years ago, a bit of VBA still crops up now and again (so far some in
> Excel, some in Word and some in Outlook.) I know C# and other .Net
> languages, PHP, etc get used at the state, and my group uses Java JSF (but
> not me, yet).
>
> Flexibility and breadth of knowledge are important!  Code lasts forever.
> Or at least it is very wise to assume so.
>
>  - Bill
>
> > On Apr 28, 2017, at 11:29 AM, Daniel A. Ramaley <
> daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2017-04-28 10:28, David Champion wrote:
> >> Is COBOL dead yet?
> >
> > We still have some COBOL running here. Thankfully, maintaining it is not
> > my problem. New stuff isn't being developed in it.
> >
> > Still have some Fortran too, though the new development in that language
> > is pretty much limited to the physics faculty at this point.
> >
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