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We in the finance sector killed it years ago. We're now trying to kill java and move to python.
by gouranga 14y ago
We in the finance sector killed it years ago. We're now trying to kill java and move to python.
- adrianhoward 14y agoWell - since you've still not managed to kill COBOL I'd bet on there still being a lot of Perl in ten years time :-)
- gouranga 14y agoWe killed that as well!
- adrianhoward 14y agoConsidering the number of folk dealing with COBOL systems I bumped into at GOTO Copenhagen last week, and the number of COBOL jobs that pop up after a quick google I would beg to differ. I can, of course, understand why you would really want it to be dead ;-)
- gouranga 14y agoI'm quite surprised actually! I've not seen COBOL in the finance sector (at least in the UK) for about 5-6 years. Perhaps there still are a few corners where there are some rotting corpses hacking away on AS/400s which are actually gluing everything together! I remember getting to sledgehammer the crap out of our AS/400 platforms and incinerate two entire pallets of IBM manuals - was "a great day for freedom" to paraphrase Pink Floyd.