Yes, I'd say that replacing or rewriting is the last thing that would happen. Some interesting tools came out of the process though. My old roommate used to work on one: WebSphere Studio Asset Analyiser, or something like that. I think it tried to untable COBOL spaghetti :-)
From what I've heard, COBOL is still over 90% of new development at many large
institutions. Also, over 90% of TCP traffic goes through mainframes. Thing is, if they break someone comes screaming and they're fixed. They stay mostly low-key though :-) Plus they're being wed to web services. Peace. Andrew On 10/5/06, Brian McCullough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 04:28:12PM -0400, Rick DeNatale wrote: > On 10/3/06, Andrew Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. But did it change, Rick? I was deeply involved during that "interesting" time, and saw a lot of that code "corrected" in ways other than rewriting or replacing. Brian -- 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/
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