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- Subject: Re: Is COBOL Dead?!
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- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 17:23:31 GMT
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- In <826250765snz@tarik.demon.co.uk>, Laurence Barea <larry@tarik.demon.co.uk> writes:
- >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
-
- IBM just released Visual Age Cobol for OS/2. Now OOP can be done from COBOL.
- Should give COBOL a new lease on life. Wished I had some of that old code
- from the 70's and 80's. I'd be willing to work on a project using the product.
-
- ---
- Jim
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