COBOL quote in the news

[Chuck Guzis]

On 12 Aug 2008 at 11:15, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:

> I would've just written web primitives for COBOL, if they don't already 
> exist.

If the original application were written for a terminal, I would 
seriously consider running it as-is inside of an environment that 
provided a web-based terminal interface.  Sometimes, tweaking the 
most innocuous bit of old code can lead to catastrophic results 
later.

Often, what clouds the picture on projects like thse is the 
tantalizing promise of adding new features to old code--and one of 
the "features" inevitably turns out to be a can of cockroaches.

Cheers,
Chuck