Re: RE: COBOL vs. Perl

[Anonymous Monk]

in reply to RE: COBOL vs. Perl
in thread COBOL vs. Perl

From my 10 years in consulting, I have to say that Mainframe programmers still using COBOL/Fortran/PL/1 or whatever -- just haven't seen the light. Kids are learning PERL, XML, HTML and Javascript in high school. And... can do more with it that any 15 year vet in COBOL/CICS/JCL. COBOL exceled in batch/file processing for non-academics: ie, those people who needed code to say "MOVE WS-MY-BIG-NUMBER TO WS-MY-BIG-TOTAL" instead of a=b.

[delirium]

Dude, seriously. This thread is over three years old. You also wouldn't say "a=b" in Perl.

[Anonymous Monk]

Hey, not sure you're aware of this but COBOL code still constitutes the largest chunk of application code in the world. Yes, believe it. COBOL vs whatever will be around for the next 10 years at least.

[NodeReaper]

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[Anonymous Monk]

yeah what is up with up fools that jump right into a thread without checking the dates?