Banks will "maybe" be done with COBOL in ten years efinancialcareers.com 2 points by ingve 9 hours ago
bn-l 8 hours ago Why is it so hard to replace? Are the algorithms just that good / impenetrable? Is the language particularly well suited for the task? CraigRo 5 hours ago Theres a whole mainframe ecosystem of schedulers, databases, disk formats, batches, 3270 screens etc that are hard to replace piecemeal
CraigRo 5 hours ago Theres a whole mainframe ecosystem of schedulers, databases, disk formats, batches, 3270 screens etc that are hard to replace piecemeal
Why is it so hard to replace? Are the algorithms just that good / impenetrable? Is the language particularly well suited for the task?
Theres a whole mainframe ecosystem of schedulers, databases, disk formats, batches, 3270 screens etc that are hard to replace piecemeal
Fully translated to F77 by then ...
Which is what they said in 1990 as well.