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Re: Design Question

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On Wednesday, December 21, 2011 8:08:07 PM UTC+1, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:11:11 -0800 (PST), souls...@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> >On Wednesday, December 21, 2011 12:25:38 AM UTC+1, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
[...]
> > Should I evaluate COBOL for my next WEB-based project?
> 
>      I do not believe him.  Do you?
> 
>      If you have something workable now, why change?  This is much the
> same as why should a working system written in COBOL be rewritten in
> language-flavour-of-the-short-time-period.

Because things evolve.
How would you add web services capabilities to a COBOL program? How would you publish an AS/400 application to the internet?
Sometimes reworking something from scratch costs less than evolving an obsolete system.

But we were talking about new projects, you diverted from the subject.

> > Should I evaluate COBOL for my next WEB-based project?

I miss your answer here.

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SoulSpirit

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