[plug] web development

Leon Blackwell leon at lostrealm.com
Wed Jan 16 14:46:01 WST 2002


On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 02:33:15PM +0800, craig at postnewspapers.com.au wrote:
> Hey. There's good money in COBOL because so many old business programs
> are written in it, and nobody wants to work with it any more.

There's a reason no one wants to work with it anymore, you know  :)


> Maintainers are hard to come by. And if you think COBOL is bad, take a
> look at Plain English (Pain Gibberish as far as I'm concerned), that's
> what _our_ apps are written in and I'd be overjoyed if it was even COBOL
> instead!

Ah... point taken.  You have my sympathies.


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