[Info-vax] Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?, was: Re: LMF Licence Generator Code

[Dave Froble]

On 8/15/2021 3:58 PM, kemain.nospam at gmail.com wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Arne Vajhøj via
>> Info-vax
>> Sent: August-15-21 3:02 PM
>> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
>> Cc: Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk>
>> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?, was:
> Re:
>> LMF Licence Generator Code
>>
>> On 8/15/2021 1:28 PM, kemain.nospam at gmail.com wrote:
>>>> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of VAXman----
>>>> via Info-vax In article <sf3k2f$re3$1 at gioia.aioe.org>,
>>>> helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply))
>>>> writes:
>>>>> It is still used in the financial industry, for instance.  And, yes,
>>>>> people are writing new COBOL code.
>>>>
>>>> I have two clients that are both writing COBOL for aerospace
>>>> logistics and
>>> on
>>>> VMS too.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker
>>>> VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG
>>>>
>>>> I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.
>>>
>>> Yep, I know of one US-Canada Customs 24x7 critical environment that is
>>> based on OpenVMS Cobol and Oracle Rdb.
>>>
>>> If the App is down, trucks stop at the border.
>>
>> It is probably a general characteristics for Cobol applications today that:
>> 1) they were created many decades ago
>> 2) they do something  really impotant
>>
>>> Mostly mainframe, but seems like lots of Cobol:
>>> https://www.adzuna.ca/search?q=cobol&w=Canada
>>
>> 101 Cobol jobs in Canada.
>>
>> (but for comparison 6392 PHP, 6328 Python, 6146 Java,
>> 3088 C#, 2856 C++, 341 Kotlin, 242 Groovy, 151 Rust,
>> 71 VB.NET, 11 Fortran, 5 PL/I)
>>
>> Arne
>>
>
> Interesting article on COBOL from 2017:
> <https://www.eweek.com/it-management/why-new-ceo-will-keep-cobol-a-key-focus
> -of-micro-focus/>
> "“Forty years ago, Micro Focus had COBOL, predominately mainframe COBOL, and
> helped in the development of COBOL applications,” Hsu said. “Today, COBOL is
> still one of the largest assets in the portfolio, and it’s growing.
>
> “Mission-critical applications in COBOL still run most of the major at-scale
> transaction systems, such as credit-card processing, large travel logistics,
> and so on. What Micro Focus has done is innovate in COBOL to make it
> mobile-accessible, cloud deployable and deployable in a distributed model.”

I may have mentioned before, software does not wear out.  It keeps 
working.  To which I often get replies that things change and therefore 
the software is "worn out".

Maybe so, but software can be maintained.  It does not surprise me that 
there is plenty of older software out there still running things.

If it works, work it ..
If it ain't broke, don't fix it ..


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