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Like COBOL? (Score:1)

by Odud (1047)

Remember when the "death of COBOL" was regularly announced? Of course it never happened as there was so much code running production workloads (and there still is). What did seem to happen though was that COBOL programmers were marginalised - as it was no longer seen as interesting/relevant to newer coders - even with attempts to keep the language up to date.

I don't know how much Perl 5 code is running production workloads - but I guess it is a huge amount and there will be no business drivers for upgradin
- Re:Like COBOL? (Score:1)
  
  by pudge (1) on 2002.04.17 8:12 (#7159) Homepage Journal
  
  Personally I think it will be a sad thing if the existing communities split into two camps - much of the vitality and sparkle will disappear and something wonderful will be gone forever.
  
  Thanks ... that is my only real point. :-)
  
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