[comp.lang.misc] Is Cobol dead?

sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) (12/03/89)

smk90219@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>Well, I know I'm technically nobody, but I'm curious:
>Are you sure cobol isn't dead?  I thought it had been replaced by, say,
>Natural/Adabas, Modula, C++, etc.
>At least here in the U.S.

OK, I don't live in the US, so what do I know. I don't know about
Natural/Adabas but certainly wouldn't like to translate a program
from Cobol to C++ or even worse Modula-2. There are a lot of ugly 
things in Cobol, but there are a lot fancy features which are very 
handy for the kinds of applications you use Cobol.
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