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That's exactly what we were told in 1996 (21 years ago that is) when I entered my engineering school: to disregard Cobol and Fortran, because, you know, OLD tec
by Juliate 9y ago
That's exactly what we were told in 1996 (21 years ago that is) when I entered my engineering school: to disregard Cobol and Fortran, because, you know, OLD tech. Won't matter much longer.
If the cost of training peons to make it last and run is less than the cost of rebuilding it, be it from scratch or piece by piece, it will matter longer (that's the point of view of insurances, banks and big corps today, and what's still happening in the IT industry).
- raverbashing 9y agoLatin is dead not because no one uses it anymore, but because you're limited in what you can do with it.
- dtech 9y agoThey might be maintained for a foreseeable time, but if you take a job maintaining them you've committed your entire career to only do that. That's not appetizing to young engineers.