[Info-vax] Variable declarations, was: Re: improving EDT

[David Froble]

Kerry Main wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On Behalf
>> Of Arne Vajhøj via Info-vax
>> Sent: 28-Nov-16 10:55 PM
>> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
>> Cc: Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk>
>> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Variable declarations, was: Re:
> improving
>> EDT
>>
>> On 11/23/2016 10:58 AM, Kerry Main wrote:
>>> A bit dated, but given the huge amount of Cobol code still
>> running
>>> many mission critical banking, insurance and similar
>> environments,
>>> likely still applies today:
>>> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Is-
>> COBOL-the-18W
>>> heeler-of-the-Web
>>>
>>> http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1432435/cobol-
>> lease-life
>>> Key point is to leverage and sell Cobol integration skills
> with
>> .Net,
>>> J2EE and other web integration technologies with the
>> philosophy of
>>> "upgrade and integrate", not "rip-and-replace".
>> That theory has been around for many years.
>>
>> But reality does not seem to have caught up with the theory.
>>
>> Arne
>>
> 
> Cobol and mainframes are so embedded in today's business world,
> that it will likely be at least 2 decades before either of these
> are totally gone.
> 
> I know one relatively large OpenVMS/Cobol shop that today
> controls most of the trucking between Canada and the US. If their
> app stops, then so do most of the trucks at the border.
> 
> They have been tinkering on the edges to replace this environment
> with Windows for about 10 years now.

Are they building large parking lots at the border?

:-)

Why are they wanting to tinker with something that works?  Is it not as good as 
needed?  Or did some asshole who drank the weendoze kool aid involved?