Some technologies never die—they just fade into the woodwork.
Ask the average software developer about COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) and they’ll look at you as if you mentioned carbon paper, leaded gasoline, or the 78 RPM record. Compared to modern languages like Go or Python—or even Pascal or C!—COBOL seems wordy, clunky, passé.
But COBOL has endured. Far from an obsolescent technology we’ve happily parted company with, COBOL has become an institution. Massive COBOL codebases are still in use around the world... Читать дальше...