On Thursday, December 21, 2017 10:47 AM, John McKown
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The programmers that I work with would most likely do a "deer
> in the headlights" act if I tried to talk to the about dynamic allocation
>in COBOL with them. They're not stupid, but they just do things the tried &
> true way.
It's sad you needed to say Cobol programmers are not stupid. The reality is
that they are area experts rather than IT experts. Unix programmers often spend
far too much time keeping up with their programming languages and environments.
If IBM can deliver on their promises with Watson, the world is in for some
major advances. Their key concept is to "train Watson". If they are successful,
then area experts will no longer be associated with IT and businesses will be
able to concentrate on the business rather than IT. At this point, they are
still very far away but the concept is very promising.
Jon.
