[TriLUG] The thin line...

[Andrew Ball]

Yes, I'd say that replacing or rewriting is the last thing that would
happen.  Some
interesting tools came out of the process though.  My old roommate
used to work on
one:  WebSphere Studio Asset Analyiser, or something like that.  I
think it tried
to untable COBOL spaghetti :-)

>From what I've heard, COBOL is still over 90% of new development at many large
institutions.  Also, over 90% of TCP traffic goes through mainframes.  Thing is,
if they break someone comes screaming and they're fixed.  They stay mostly
low-key though :-)  Plus they're being wed to web services.

Peace.
Andrew

On 10/5/06, Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 04:28:12PM -0400, Rick DeNatale wrote:
> > On 10/3/06, Andrew Ball <anball at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've got a suspicion that, although COBOL is still important, that its
> > importance dropped dramatically after we got through the millennium
> > change 'crisis,' and a lot of legacy code finally got replaced.
>
>
> But did it change, Rick?  I was deeply involved during that
> "interesting" time, and saw a lot of that code "corrected" in ways other
> than rewriting or replacing.
>
>
> Brian
>
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