Funny thing - I was just writing about COBOL yesterday: "Is COBOL like Oil?" : http://www.cicsworld.com/node/559
Thanks Corneel Booysen. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 2:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: (fwd) Re: Is IT becoming extinct? On 8 Apr 2008 10:55:13 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Ross) wrote: >I work on the IBM COBOL compiler, and if you could see the amount of interest, >the number of compiler licenses, the sheer number of COBOL programmers on IBM >Mainframes doing new work everyday in COBOL, you would never say such a thing. > >For example, we are being overwhelmed with requests to continue our improvements >for XML support in COBOL, it has been the most quickly adopted new feature of COBOL >in my quarter century as an IBM COBOL compiler developer. > >COBOL is more alive today than it was 10 years ago! Demise indeed... It's certainly not dead - but its share is dropping as alternative tools do more tasks. I don't think it is more alive today than it was 10 years ago. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
