17 Jun
2026
17 Jun
'26
7:51 a.m.
On 17/06/2026 4:49 pm, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
I came on the scene of a Honeywell to Univac-1100
migration 46 years
ago. Mostly COBOL a little Fortran and a tiny bit of other silly
stuff. Not only was there no thought of converting the COBOL to Ada
at the time but the last time I checked they are still running some
of the COBOL I wrote when I was there.
Sure, but would anyone starting a new software project choose
COBOL as the implementation language?
Julf