[Tutor] Python3 : Yes --- Python2 : No ?
Alan G
alan.gauld at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Sep 21 18:06:24 EDT 2019
I'm using my phone so format may be messed up, sorry...
<There are also millions - perhaps billions - of lines of COBOL still in
use...
That's a slightly different case since COBOL is a language still in active
development with new versions coming out regularly (as in every 10 years
or so.) and there is even an object oriented variant(in fact more than
one!) . Indeed there are many new COBOL projects being written because
COBOL has unique features that make it the best language for high volume
batch processing of data, especially file based data on a mainframe
architecture.
It's not a single version that is now obsolescent. That having been said
there will doubtless be systems still using COBOL from the Y2K period. But
most COBOL compilers are commercial and provide full support(at a price)
for old versions. Very different from an open source language like
Python.
Anyone still using a 1970s or earlier version of cobol deserves all they
get but most large organisations update their OS and compiler more often
than that. Just because the language is 60 years old don't assume the
version is.
Alan G.
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