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New research aims to analyze how widespread COBOL is

dboyes

Nothing "old" here

At times, I really start to resent the Reg "ancient tech" labeling of older technology that does exactly what it's supposed to do. COBOL is (IMHO) the first example of a domain-specific programming language, and for the problems it was designed for, there is no better choice. Admiral Hopper herself put it perfectly: "If people are going to describe their problems in English, the computer should be taught to understand English."

Don't knock it if you haven't used it. You can learn COBOL in less than a day, and it works. Is it good at everything? No. Does it allow business people to express problems in language they can understand and end up with workable code. Absolutely. Is it on every useful platform known to man? Yes. Not many things can say that.

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