Back in the 1960s companies that were still doing accounting by hand or EAM would blame billing errors on their imaginary computer. So why not blame COBOL? In fact, why not blame COBOL even if the application was written in some other language?
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Bob Bridges [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 13, 2020 12:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ACM Articles on Cobol and more The third link Lionel provided below, https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2487294.2487308, refers repeatedly to the problems states are having keeping up with the demand (in their unemployment-compensation systems) by saying their overworked websites are failing in various ways. But that doesn't sound like a COBOL problem at all. --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* The more sophisticated the technology, the more vulnerable it is to primitive attack. People often overlook the obvious. -Dr Who, 1978 */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lionel B Dyck Sent: Monday, April 13, 2020 11:58 Interesting articles https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/2667432.2667440 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/15467.15471 Motivating students to acquire mainframe skills https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2487294.2487308 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
