Friday, August 20, 2004
CobolScript
Stick the word Script at the end of any programming language name and old becomes new again. Case in point: CobolScript.
It used to be said that, to a first approximation, all programs are written in COBOL. Apparently this is still true, at least in some sectors. Here's the relevant quote:
It used to be said that, to a first approximation, all programs are written in COBOL. Apparently this is still true, at least in some sectors. Here's the relevant quote:
"Most of the world's business data, approximately 75 to 85 percent, is written in COBOL," adds Bill Payson, president and CEO of Senior Techs, an Internet-based job bank for experienced IT professionals in Campbell, Calif. "That translates to some hundreds of billions of lines of code."Hundreds of billions of lines of COBOL code? Yikes. Maybe CobolScript isn't such a crazy idea after all.
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