Re: Article on new mainframe use

On 2024-08-15 20:58, MitchAlsup1 wrote:

On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:04:13 +0000, George Neuner wrote:
 

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from the article:

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"Still, efforts to do away with the mainframe have been going for
years, especially as the number of developers conversant in Cobol—one
of the primary programming languages used in mainframes—quickly
dwindles.
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 While dusty deck COBOL programs make assumptions about the environment
they compute within, there is nothing preventing computer makers from
supporting those features that COBOL programs require and getting a
COBOL compiler for their ISA up and running. The problem is that as
long as there are mainframe makers, the other computer makers do not
see a big enough market to make the required investments.

The late prof. Robert Dewar, founder of AdaCore and proponent of the Ada language, also had great respect for COBOL and had earlier written a COBOL compiler for PCs, which (I believe) became Micro Focus Visual COBOL, now Rocket Visual COBOL.
Dewar used to say that COBOL is the "Rodney Dangerfield of programming languages", which just "don't get no respect".