[Cialug] Programming languages: next 10 yrs

David Champion dchamp1337 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 28 10:42:42 CDT 2017


The first time I saw an ad for their "Visual COBOL" product, I just about
fell out of my chair laughing.

It will probably never die.

-dc

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 10:37 AM, Kyle Hamilton <khamil8686 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Haha, not even close. I saw an advertisement from MicroFocus the other day
> that said 'COBOL in the cloud!' It was about a new version being released
> :)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
> Behalf
> Of L. V. Lammert
> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2017 10:34 AM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Programming languages: next 10 yrs
>
> On Fri, 28 Apr 2017, David Champion wrote:
>
> > Is COBOL dead yet?
> >
> Not for the white-hair folks that still support the 40 year old systems, ..
>
> MicroFocus still sells their version, ..
>
>         Lee
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