Dynamic languages

[Tom B.]

"Reid Nichol" <rnichol_rrc at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Tom B. wrote:
> > I doubt that this is what they mean but a dynamic language is a language
> > that is still evolving (Python) as opposed to a dead language (COBOL).
> During my "education" at my school of unfortunate choice I had to learn
> the script of the damned... sorry, COBOL.  I learned that it has indeed
> gone through some developments in the past years ie COBOL now is object
> oriented COBOL.
>
> It *should* be dead though, but companies don't want to develope any new
> systems.  So, they fund a programming program at some local college at
> "suggest" that they include it so that they have a work force availible
> to make changes to there system.
>
> That of course doesn't mean that this certain company's COBOL programmer
> lasts on average < 6 months.  Which certainly is the case.  Quite
> frankly I don't know how they last so long.

    I figured that I wouldn't be able to find any truly dead computer
language. I met a technician at U of Minnesota Physics department who
collected PDP11's and programmed only in fourth. When I asked him why he
replied, 'If I don't do it who will'.

Tom