Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : tenser
Date : Tue Jan 09 2024 04:58:26

On 08 Jan 2024 at 06:19a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...
 
 pF> -=> tenser wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
 pF> 
 pF>  te> Yeah, a lot of MIS/CIS places continued to teach COBOL for
 pF>  te> a long time.  I wonder what they teach now....
 pF> 
 pF> If I were freelancing, I wouldn't mind having a business process control
 pF> language like COBOL or RPG in my toolkit. I wouldn't want to rely on it,
 pF> mind you...

Hey, with IBM pushing AI to translate those piles of
dusty COBOL into Java, maybe you'd never need it!

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