The COBOLATOR. Oh my…
miklernout | May 8, 2009Thanks to our friends at MicroFocus for this:
So what skills would THE COBOLATOR have:
- Hunt down executives and force them write copy module code?
- Bill, by force, monthly fees for a platform he no longer intend to support or develop?
- Talk you into moving your legacy mess on UNIX or Windows and make you believe it is modernization?
- Duck every time you ask for a change to the system?
- Convince you lower case is an invention by the devil, and UNICODE its evil twin?
- Battle THE GOVERNATOR and stop him from paying his employees?
Keep up! You’re talking about the COBOL of the ’70s. With the amount of investment that the world has in COBOL code are you really so naive that you think it stood still?
It is true: that is what you get from looking at 10 to 20 year old COBOL systems all day. Your view gets kind of skewed
I am sure all 4GL will keep evolving to keep up with the latest fads. Like the AJAX-library I saw a couple of weeks ago for Natural/ADABAS. Shudder.
But should it?Are we that bound to the platform? is the platform even that great? Why wouldn’t you adopt a modern mainstream development platform?
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