On 10/3/06, Andrew Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Believe it or not, Cobol (in more recent incarnations, with plus signs and xml parsers among other cool new features 8-) ) remains very important for financial institutions. And there's a huge shortage of people with MVS and Cobol skills. I had a pretty fun job playing with enterprise transformation tools that slurped Cobol CICS transactions into web services.
I've got a suspicion that, although COBOL is still important, that its importance dropped dramatically after we got through the millennium change 'crisis,' and a lot of legacy code finally got replaced. No proof of that though -- Rick -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
