Comment by jareds

As someone who used to work for a Mainframe software vendor I'm tired of COBOL being considered "legacy" and bad. I didn't do much COBOL programming, but IBM is still releasing new compilers and new versions of z/OS for the Mainframe. Just because a language is old doesn't mean it's useless and worth rewriting. Instead of having COBOL be the boogeyman explain what the issues are. Is the system stuck on old COBOL versions do to lack of funding for upgrades, incompetence when it comes to long term maintenance plans, technical issues that make it impossible to move forward with new COBOL versions and would require a rewrite, etc. Are we going to see stories like this in 20 years about some company thinking they should rewrite the Linux Kernel in some new language and throw away all the C code that's been running for decades?