Metin,
you have to understand that there are a huge number of extremely big applications used around the world, mostly go governments and the military. The value of special purpose applications written in Cobol is much higher than applications written in any other programming language, as far as I know. Some of these applications may be more than thirty years old, but they are maintained and improved over the years, and will not be replaced unless the moon falls down. I am talking about multi-billion USD applications.
>I looked up an article yet which Einar's gave us link in UT. There is written a Cobol.NET version even. I know a lot of talked about this issue but I can't understand it. Why even a Cobol.NET possible and VFP.NET impossible. Ken said some reasons and I accept them (I reveal now because I'm not an expert in deep on technical and English issues) but I cannot understand anymore...
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