Comments on: Time to Cut COBOL from Life Support http://www.dbtablog.com/2008/06/11/time-to-cut-cobol-from-life-support/ Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:30:05 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: James Taylor http://www.dbtablog.com/2008/06/11/time-to-cut-cobol-from-life-support/comment-page-1/#comment-29 James Taylor Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:37:46 +0000 http://www.dbta.com/blogs/mckendrick/?p=29#comment-29 Joe An interesting post, as is James', and prompted me to respond with <a href="http://smartenoughsystems.com/wp/2008/06/13/why-dont-you-replace-cobol-with-something-useful-not-java/" rel="nofollow">Why don't you replace COBOL with something useful (not Java)</a> Enjoy! JT James Taylor Author, with Neil Raden, of <a href="http://www.smartenoughsystems.com/About-the-Book.html" rel="nofollow">Smart (Enough) Systems</a> Joe
An interesting post, as is James’, and prompted me to respond with Why don’t you replace COBOL with something useful (not Java)
Enjoy!

JT
James Taylor
Author, with Neil Raden, of Smart (Enough) Systems

]]> By: Why don’t you replace COBOL with something useful (not Java) » Smart (Enough) Systems, the blog http://www.dbtablog.com/2008/06/11/time-to-cut-cobol-from-life-support/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Why don’t you replace COBOL with something useful (not Java) » Smart (Enough) Systems, the blog Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:35:49 +0000 http://www.dbta.com/blogs/mckendrick/?p=29#comment-28 [...] McKendrick in his Eye on the Enterprise blog had a post on legacy modernization - Time to Cut COBOL from Life Support in which he referenced a post by James McGovern The mainframe is not evil, but COBOL is… in [...] [...] McKendrick in his Eye on the Enterprise blog had a post on legacy modernization – Time to Cut COBOL from Life Support in which he referenced a post by James McGovern The mainframe is not evil, but COBOL is… in [...]

]]> By: abraham http://www.dbtablog.com/2008/06/11/time-to-cut-cobol-from-life-support/comment-page-1/#comment-27 abraham Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:45:55 +0000 http://www.dbta.com/blogs/mckendrick/?p=29#comment-27 who told java is good.. each language has it's own advantage and disadvantage.. mainframes are robust java can't come next to it. who told java is good.. each language has it’s own advantage and disadvantage.. mainframes are robust java can’t come next to it.

]]> By: Ulo http://www.dbtablog.com/2008/06/11/time-to-cut-cobol-from-life-support/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Ulo Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:21:00 +0000 http://www.dbta.com/blogs/mckendrick/?p=29#comment-26 "English is like Java, Esperanto is like Python, Lojban is like Lisp." COBOL is like Latin? “English is like Java, Esperanto is like Python, Lojban is like Lisp.”

COBOL is like Latin?

]]> By: mankso http://www.dbtablog.com/2008/06/11/time-to-cut-cobol-from-life-support/comment-page-1/#comment-25 mankso Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:39:15 +0000 http://www.dbta.com/blogs/mckendrick/?p=29#comment-25 You wrote: >Esperanto’s been around for just a bit longer, and there’s a language that promises world peace. Just curious, but where in Esperanto's 7-point Prague Manifesto: http://lingvo.org do you see any mention of world peace? The aim of 'universal bilingualism' [YOUR language + Esperanto for everyone] is to bring individuals together across barriers of language and culture, from a level linguistic playing-field, not based on an inherent linguistic privilege for some, as now. If that should bring world peace any nearer, so be it! You wrote:
>Esperanto’s been around for just a bit longer, and there’s a language that promises world peace.

Just curious, but where in Esperanto’s 7-point Prague Manifesto:
http://lingvo.org
do you see any mention of world peace? The aim of ‘universal bilingualism’ [YOUR language + Esperanto for everyone] is to bring individuals together across barriers of language and culture, from a level linguistic playing-field, not based on an inherent linguistic privilege for some, as now. If that should bring world peace any nearer, so be it!

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