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"The idea that large corporations are simply going to move on from COBOL is out of touch with reality" Thank you. So much internet arm chair analysis falls int
by f4rker 9y ago
"The idea that large corporations are simply going to move on from COBOL is out of touch with reality"
Thank you. So much internet arm chair analysis falls into this category.
- lowken10 9y agoThe company I work for has piles of Visual Basic 6 code that will be here for as long as their product is viable (Prepaid credit cards services). The growth is simply not their to perform a rewrite. It's sad but is also a reality.
- Koshkin 9y agoI clearly remember VB6 being an excellent tool. Quality of code varied widely between developers.
- shepardrtc 9y agoVB6 was incredibly easy to work with, and honestly, the value it provided by being able to link a quickly-made, solid UI with easy, solid code was highly underrated.
- noir_lord 9y agoSame with Delphi which had a better underlying language than BASIC, fast compiles, superb version support and a stunning VCL (visual component library), it took VS studio years to catch up with a lot of that.