>>>>>Cobol is still produced and supported by several companies. There's even a version for .Net
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>>>>Do those people have no shame? COBOL is a horrible way to make a living. (IMO, obviously).
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>>>If you can code in COBOL you have a lot of work and a rare spcialist. I think that pays for the language...
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>>I'd really take such an offer and then write code generators for it in fox. And I wouldn't be the first guy who did it.
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>How would that help maintaining one of the dinosaurs out of the 70s? You now, the stuff municipality, police, name it run?

Just having one code generator for the foreplay sections, another one for whatever they use for screens, and then we could live with the actual data crunching somehow. Though I guess Cobol nowadays is not even close to what I remember from 1986-89 on PDP/VAX, but still, I'd surely write something to replace all that verbosity.

Because I know a guy who did it, so I know it can be done and I guess I could do it better.