[Cialug] Programming languages: next 10 yrs

[Andrew Denner]

COBOL is kinda like Latin, It is an ancient language that should have died
out years ago but is kept alive by a small priesthood of devoted
organizations.

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Kyle H <khamil8686 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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