Re: Fw: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia
- From: Efinnell15@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 28 Feb 2006 06:59:17 -0800
In a message dated 2/28/2006 4:45:01 A.M. Central Standard Time,
R.Skorupka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
BTW: Isn't COBOL the most primitive language in use ? OK, I assume Basic
(BASIC ?) is not in use. Isn't COBOL unpopular on other platforms ?
Not so sure that's all bad. With precompilers pretty much do anything you
want. 2 billion lines of working code. The other thing
is fixing and debugging. MicroFOCUS has done a good job of cross platform
integration maybe IBM is in denial. I don't know about VISTA but much of older
Windows were Visual Basic.
What we saw on Data WareHouse was that older groups wanted their old
programs to run no matter what new and spiffy services were provided on the
Warehouse platform. Some were 'formal' reports, some were legal requirements both
state and federal. There was one on ethnicity from fed that says 'you can't keep
and store this or use it for admissions purposes', from the same department
in the same building 'you need to report it for federal funding'. Hmmm.....
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