RE: Legacy question

From: Rory Hewitt

Joe,

Let's not forget COBOL, PL/I and (I guess) C...

Rory

Actually, of the three, I think only COBOL passes this test.  COBOL is still
around, and it's going strong in the mainframe world, and in some other
arenas where things like TCO still matter.  Personally, I consider RPG and
COBOL nearly interchangeable -- one of my nicknames for RPG is "shorthand
for COBOL" (the other is "assembly language for the database").

I don't know enough about PL/I, but I don't think there is much business
software written in it.  C has lots of programmers but since it's so close
to the metal it tends to go out of date with the OS.  So that while maybe C
on the iSeries may manage to survive for a long time (I don't know), C
written for DOS didn't port nicely to Windows, and C written for Windows
isn't going to play nicely in .NET.

Joe