Dave62 (2/26/2013)
Miles Neale (2/25/2013)
Dave,Would you suggest developing a massive new system that is PC friendly in COBOL? ...
Definitely not.
I do .NET development and SQL Server development/administration. The last company I worked for had a lot of COBOL running on an AS400. We would leave the COBOL alone as long as it was running fine and didn't need anything new added. As soon as maintenance issues or new features came up we would work on a conversion path.
We had no need, interest, or time to bother with re-writing it just for the sake of changing the language.
Dave,
I think that you and I are on common ground. Don't fix what isn't broken.
Thanks...
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