[Tutor] languages

[Alan Trautman]

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Gauld [mailto:alan.gauld@blueyonder.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 2:26 PM
To: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry; tutor@python.org
Subject: Re: [Tutor] languages


>.... Cobol should be dead (old coders from the 70s keeping 
> it alive to stay employed).

Umm no sorry. It is still ythe language of choice on mainframes. 
When we built our new billing system for the new millenium it 
was 10,000,000 lines of Cobol and about 10,000 lines of Smalltalk 
for the GUI.

Cobol is still the most widely used language for new projects 
according to a 2001 study I saw (Computing Weekly and Infoworld 
joint survey)

Much as I love Python I still spend more time than I'd like 
reading and specifying Cobol programs... And that's after we 
officially adopted Java for everything bar mainframes!

Alan G.

More research as an old COBOL guy.
COBOL II is growing quickly as more and more text is collected about people.
More importantly people who know COBOL well are retiring and no one was
trained in the 90's so especially the defence industry in the US is
desperately trying to acquire COBOL programmers. **get corporation is
desperate enough to create enough COBOL programmers they have endowed
several teaching positions at U of Minnesota. 

Alan T.

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