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COBOL Comes To Visual Studio 2015
New submitter dmleonard618 writes: Micro Focus isn't writing off COBOL just yet. The company is trying to win developers over with COBOL with the latest release of Visual COBOL for Visual Studio. The new solution aims to bring back the ancient language and make it relevant again. "Visual COBOL for Visual Studio 2015 is the next generation of COBOL development solutions, designed for today's application developer to do just that, in a productive and cost-effective way," said Micro Focus' Ed Airey.
Over a billion new lines of code is written in COBOL every year. It's here to stay.
Of course, that billion lines is enough to add two checks together.
An old COBOL programmer that I worked with early in my career described how he got tired of the keypunch operators making mistakes entering his code, so he would do the keypunch himself.
Eventually he said that he just started programming off of the top of his head at the keypunch terminal
He ended up writing most of the programs used at the local department of transportation with little or no documentation
The director allowed it and was stuck with it when he was forced to retire by the local government HR rules
He was back at work a week later as a consultant making three times what he had been at the top of his pay grade
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