On Apr 25, 2008, at 4:41 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
Max wrote:
My understanding is that some large institutions use
"legacy systems" running stuff like COBOL which is more than a
couple of
decades old.
Wasn't such "legacy" software as COBOL the source of the Y2K scare a
few years ago?
COBOL is a programming language, not a software (the compiler/linker
for the language is a piece of software, but that's a different
thing). There was a lot of COBOL code that had the Y2K problem but
that was primarily because a lot of financial/business software was
written in the COBOL. The point that the Y2K problem is an
illustration of how the industry tends to underestimate the lifetime
of software, is a good one.
--ravi
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