Re: Ok, one more time, a POLL on www.midrange.com

Jon.Paris@halinfo.it wrote:

>  >> However the other programmer has the opinion that there is no sense in
> learning this since RPG
>  >> is going away,  IBM will not be doing any further enhancements, and the
> big push is JAVA, so if we are
>  >> going to do anything should we start concentrating on JAVA?
>
> I assume that the "other programmer" was among those who predicted the
> demise of COBOL back in the 1960s (and 70s and 80s and ...)  One can only
> assume that Micro Focus (and other COBOL vendors) have been cooking their
> books ever since then since they appear to be quite profitable on paper.
> <grin>

At the local Technical College we had a meeting to plan a new Computer
Programming curriculum for a federal grant they just received.  During the
meeting one of the local MS bigots warned against teaching COBOL because "COBOL
is going away".

After a good round of laughter someone else chimed in that he was right, COBOL
has been going away for thirty years and thirty years from now it will still be
going away.


jte


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