COBOL – Language Of The Future
COBOL is a sexy, modern language:
Cobol is a key element in the realization of modern distributed business software architecture concepts—XML/metadata, Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture—and e-business. Not a trendy element, or you’d see Cobol sessions at the next Web 2.0 conference. But a crucial element.
But not in California:
If Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to issue minimum-wage checks to 200,000 state workers in less than a month, he may want to rehire any semi-retired computer programmers he terminated last week.
The massive pay cut would exhaust the state’s antiquated payroll system, which is built on a Vietnam-era computer language so outdated that many college students don’t even bother to learn it anymore.
