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- From: Laurence Barea <larry@tarik.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Is COBOL Dead?!
- Date: Fri, 08 Mar 96 02:06:05 GMT
- Organization: Dialog Systems Limited
- Message-ID: <826250765snz@tarik.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <4hft0g$lp8@news.interpath.net>
- softbase@mercury.interpath.net
- "Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems" writes:
-
- > PJLoree (pjloree@aol.com) wrote:
- > : For my Master's thesis, I am studying the viable of
- > : the COBOL programming language.
- >
- > Trust me, COBOL is alive and well. People are actually developing COBOL
- > programs in UNIX now (ugh!) and porting their mainframe programs to
- > UNIX (ugh!). The PC COBOL industry is thriving.
-
- In addition, think about how much work will be out there for COBOL
- programmers when existing COBOL programs have to be modified to
- take into account the up-and-coming change of century.
-
- --
- Laurence Barea
- larry@tarik.demon.co.uk
-