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…

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Add 50 to Cobol Giving Cobol

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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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Do Programming Languages Ever Die?

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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.

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