[Info-vax] Seasons Greetings

[John Smith (not the one @ HP)]

"Neil Rieck" <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> wrote in message 
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When pressed further about rewriting business apps in modern computer
languages, he simply stated that those languages do not have the
features of COBOL so it was unlikely that big businesses would be
changing to something else anytime soon, if ever. So it was more
likely that older programmers would be pulled out of retirement before
schools started to place more emphasis on languages like COBOL when
training the next generation"



I guess that one fringe benefit older programmers might want for two similar 
but different reasons are Depends - one, because they need them and two, 
once they see the quality of the code that their younger replacements wrote.