Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder7.news.weretis.net!news.unit0.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bo Persson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: My Delphi projects work with C++Builder.. Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 23:59:11 +0100 Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net is+MFP7ie+amDNeSLgS3kgq+WAH6hiDo1d/O7bB4bK7phRpgJI Cancel-Lock: sha1:V/I2PsGR6GPecEdjravBP1z00Y4= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.1 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: sv Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c++:69838 On 2019-11-16 at 22:35, Öö Tiib wrote: > On Saturday, 16 November 2019 22:55:30 UTC+2, David Brown wrote: >> >> COBOL is massively relevant - even today. I am not convinced by the >> estimates I have read of the quantity of COBOL code written in recent >> years, but even if they are out by a couple of orders of magnitude, >> COBOL is still a huge industry and a major programming language. > > Lot of companies that are more than 35 years old have some part of > their bookkeeping written in COBOL. In my experience it is so more > often than not with such companies. And our worldly economy stands > on shoulders of companies that are more than 35 years old (and people > who are more than 35 years old). In effort to modernize COBOL it was > AFAIK standardized to be object-oriented since 2002. > And not only bookkeeping. :-) I recently worked for a bank with about 500 COBOL developers doing all the heavy data lifting. Even when you have a smart phone app accessing a server written in Java, the Java code will send all the transactions to the COBOL back end for validation and data base accesses. This doesn't show up in the Tiobe index, because it is all closed source and the 50 year old developers don't ask COBOL questions on any net forum. :-) Bo Persson