Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 29 Sep 2024 20:00:23 GMT, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 29 Sep 2024 05:42:15 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

On Sun, 29 Sep 2024 01:28:01 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

And COBOL is STILL with us, just under the skin. Lots of those 60s
pgms writ by narrow-tie horn-rim-glasses Dilberts STILL doing their
thing.

 
They are disappearing, one way or the other. Companies that are still
insisting on sticking to that legacy code gradually going out of
business or being acquired, and having that technical-debt-ridden stuff
superseded by more modern stuff from the parent company ...
 
Do you think PayPal, Ebay or TradeMe use COBOL code to manage their
financial transactions? Of course not.

 
How many government agencies, financial institution and so forth do you
think DON NOT have reams of legacy COBOL?

Government? Again, diminishing. Because, you know, politicians keep
wanting to know why so many tax dollars are going into the increasing
costs of maintaining “legacy” systems.

Financial institutions? See above.