At 09:39 AM 10/8/99 -0400, you wrote:
>http://www.cobolscript.com/
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>Why DO people persist in using Cobol?
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>Ruven Brooks
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People don't use COBOL.
Projects are programmed in COBOL.
This decision is usually made at a much-higher-than-programmer level.
It usually has something to do with
- economics, is the company ready to commit major resources to rewrite
existing systems in a new language when the old system still works, it
is making the company money new without spending a penny. To convert to
a new language will cost us money just to convert without deploying a
new system that will make us more money, get us a new revenue stream.
- future supportability of the code
- you programmers keep inventing new languages, and we are not going to
change our language of implementation every 6 months like you want to
- what to do with the stuff in our old language when we change to a new one
- can you, Mr. Programmer, guarrantee me, the boss's boss, that a NEW AND
IMPROVED language won't come out in 6 months and leave us with lots of code
in Cobol and one project in the new language trying to ramp up in the
NEW language again???
I think that changing languages is futile. We must change to some form of
case tool and auto-code generation. Change and raise the level of the
representation.
Ronald B. Finkbine, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of CS, Dept. of Math and CS
Hanover College, P.O. Box 890, Hanover, IN 47243, (812) 866-7280
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