I'll make you a deal: if you can show me a cost-effective reason why any new company would use COBOL, I will admit my error and tell everyone how you have humbled me with your wisdom :)

I don't believe in me being right or you being wrong. It is seeing things in different ways.

But to give you an example of why a new company would consider a "new" COBOL solution cost-effective! When it comes to companies. Quite often they aren't isolated, they have to interface their system with other systems, to avoid breaking the "shop standard consistency" of their partner(let say an old dinosaur company!). It usually means that they are better of augmenting the old system with their own system (use cobol on their own machines to interface).

Here is another example... A new Consulting company that maintains old COBOL solutions, to train their personel they let them build a system for them in COBOL. "A cost-effective training implementation"!

In reply to RE: RE: RE: RE: Intended use and unintended use. An insight into design. (Continued) by JanneVee
in thread Intended use and unintended use. An insight into design. by JanneVee

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