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C++ is the new Cobol

• jacobush 11y ago
  Nah, PHP is the new COBOL
  • osullivj 11y ago
    Nah, Java is the new COBOL. Billions of LOC that will never be replaced, running on arcane infrastructure. In this case the arcane infrastructure isn't mainframe hardware or OSes, it's J2EE bean containers, XML configged ORMs, and Ant build systems.
    • jacobush 11y ago
      You are right, of course. Maybe PHP is the new VB?
    • deleted 11y ago
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    • eklavya 11y ago
      Man I am so glad I escaped all that. Sheer luck !
    • kozukumi 11y ago
      One of the best things about Java is that getting old code running on newer hardware is so much easier compared to the COBOL cluster-fuck we have these days. Hopefully we won't see as much 30+ year old hardware running our mission critical Java applications as we see our COBOL applications.