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On Thursday 23 Jun 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 23 June 2011 19:16:08 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly:
> > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:23:58 +0200, pk wrote:
> > > It refuses to die because it's still very useful in certain
> > > niche areas (hpc, numerical computing etc.) where "modern"
> > > languages doesn't cut it... :-)
> > 
> > Or so the Fortran programmers with jobs to protect will tell you...
> > 
> > You'll be telling us there's still a place for Cobol next :-O
> 
> Of course there's a place for Cobol, a classic one is in the bank my
> gf does data warehousing at.
> 
> There's not a single soul in the entire bank that is willing to sign
> off on a project to replace the Cobol that has run
> justfinethanksverymuch for 25+ years

It's the latest thing! http://visualcobol.microfocus.com/

-Robin
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