17 Jun
2026
17 Jun
'26
7:56 a.m.
On 6/17/2026 10:51 AM, Johan Helsingius via cctalk wrote:
On 17/06/2026 4:49 pm, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
wrote:
Other than the dearth of programmers, why not? What's wrong with the
language when the project is in its domain?
And, while we are on the subject. Does no one else see the potential
for profit in teaching COBOL again? If no college wants to do it,
what about these trade schools we keep hearing about?
bill
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?