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Yes, but would you start a new project in COBOL today?

• rbanffy 17y ago
  That's a silly question. I am a computer conservationist proud of a growing computer collection. Of course I would, just for the kick of it! I would like, of course, to run it on an IBM /360, or, if that were not possible, an emulator. You would access it via your own 3270 terminal. It would be made to look specially cool on 3290s - wouldn't be hard: anything looks cool on a 3290. I would develop it while wearing a white lab coat. A Burroughs B-series would also be considered ;-) Now, seriously, no. I wouldn't start a new product (I can conceive lots of maintenance projects done in whatever was already done to maintain code commonality) in COBOL. And yes, you would have a hard time convincing me of starting one in Java too. I cringe even when someone proposes one in PHP.