In a message dated 2/28/2006 4:45:01 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
BTW: Isn't COBOL the most primitive language in use ? OK, I assume Basic (BASIC ?) is not in use. Isn't COBOL unpopular on other platforms ? >> Not so sure that's all bad. With precompilers pretty much do anything you want. 2 billion lines of working code. The other thing is fixing and debugging. MicroFOCUS has done a good job of cross platform integration maybe IBM is in denial. I don't know about VISTA but much of older Windows were Visual Basic. What we saw on Data WareHouse was that older groups wanted their old programs to run no matter what new and spiffy services were provided on the Warehouse platform. Some were 'formal' reports, some were legal requirements both state and federal. There was one on ethnicity from fed that says 'you can't keep and store this or use it for admissions purposes', from the same department in the same building 'you need to report it for federal funding'. Hmmm..... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
