Posted by Mike on Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 337 views
COBOL is a useful language and will remain that way for a very long time. It has and keeps serving its purpose, which is to be a language targeted at non-programmers, mostly business analysts, with very few or none programming knowledge …
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Posted by Mike on Monday, January 4, 2010 - 171 views
Ted Neward wrote in mid-2008 that Java is Dead Like COBOL. In many ways, I still see this as the case. Java has warts and wrinkles. … MORE
Posted by Mike on Monday, August 17, 2009 - 99 views
Any outsider taking a look at the RPG IV specification of today and comparing it to any other language that exists, including COBOL, and the great PL/1, … MORE
Posted by Mike on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 112 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.
Posted by Mike on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 114 views
When I started out as a programmer all those years ago, I was coding in COBOL using IBM Mainframes running MVS with IMS and DB2 Databases.
Read the rest of Brian Egler’s article here.
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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…
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Posted by Mike on - 72 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.
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Posted by Mike on - 87 views
Maybe programming languages do fade away even become obscure but do they every go away?
You can’t prove that they do by looking at COBOL.
There’s more here.