Why is “Legacy” a Bad Word?
Posted by Mike on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 - 179 views
Drake Coker, writing in Data Center Journal, recently put together a piece on what the world would be like if all the COBOL systems in the world were taken … MORE
Which Architecture Would You Buy, Legacy or Modern?
Posted by Mike on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - 273 views
We all know what a legacy system is mostly by its age (30 to 50 years old) but also by its characteristics—flat files, COBOL, serial processing, … MORE
Who needs Cobol anymore?
Posted by Mike on Friday, May 29, 2009 - 96 views
I was interested to read the Computing article by Martin Courtney, “Cobol skills still prized by CIOs”, having recently written about the value of legacy … more
Grace Murray Hopper: Striving For Natural Computer Language
Posted by Mike on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 262 views
The B-series led to the release in the late ’50s of Flow-Matic, which became the forerunner of COBOL — for Common Business Oriented language…
Read more here at the Philadelphia Bulletin’s website.
The Programmer’s Future
Posted by Mike on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 279 views
Will low-cost offshore competition and packaged apps make the in-house programmer obsolete? Coding software has been a good living for a half million or more–sometimes far more–Americans…
Add 50 to Cobol Giving Cobol
Posted by Mike on - 167 views
COBOL turns 50 some time this year and we owe a tip of the hat to this venerable language behind so many large institutions.
