On 27/3/23 22:07, Bill Johnson wrote:
+1
About a year or so ago I posted about the number of lines of COBOL code in use
worldwide and stated COBOL was going to be the language of choice for many
decades to come. Estimates say 800 billion lines (and growing) in use today. As
usual, I was attacked for my fact based opinion.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/programming-languages-how-much-cobol-code-is-out-there-the-answer-might-surprise-you/
Facts! You've quoted an article from the internet!
"The study, commissioned by IT company Micro Focus and conducted by
research and analysis firm Vanson Bourne"
Micro Focus is a vendor who hawks COBOL compilers and IDE's. It's a bit
like McDonalds commissioning research on the health benefits of Big Mac's.
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On Monday, March 27, 2023, 1:56 AM, Farley, Peter
<[email protected]> wrote:
I am getting increasingly tired of snide or outright dismissive references to
COBOL and by extension to COBOL programmers.
Programmers like me.
Yes, I am also well versed in HLASM, Rexx, awk and gawk, somewhat facile in
SORT (at least as far as knowing and using JOIN's), SQL, JCL and various other
z/OS utilities, MetalC, and lately python and bash scripting. I even remember
some of the PL/I and Fortran and Pascal I used in college and my early
employment days. I even remember some SNOBOL, which I actually got to use
productively at a then-major NY bank very early in my career.
COBOL pays my bills and keeps my employer operating successfully and profitably.
COBOL does NOT rot the brain. Alcohol and various other legal and illegal
substances can, in fact, do that. Intelligently devising business solutions to
business problems in ANY computer language does NOT rot the brain.
It is not funny or acceptable to say so. It never was.
Peter
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On Sun, 26 Mar 2023 23:18:49 +0000, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
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In COBOL, for example, the following end up doing the same thing.
Do not use CO BOL as an exemplar of programming discipline. Cobol rots the
brain.
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