>>I can also use COBOL today. But frankly, it just doesn't make sense.
What if you could import existing useful COBOL code into your favorite IDE and call it using your favorite language?
Perhaps business has only tolerated expensive rewrites because mainstream vendors provided no viable alternative.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
