Still people are happy with IE6
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There's trillons of Cobol code lines out there, so... I worked for a Bank that is still using some Clipper apps. I think that run every two year to the new version of VS is worthless
COBOL is still active and popular because it supports decimal arithmetic natively (ie. without having to write classes or depend on libraries). Most commercial activities are plain old "read input, massage numbers, spit out result" instead of making lists or calculating a scientific result (which is more interesting to OOP and recent paradigms). Just about every day a new language is invented by somebody, but none of them address decimal arithmetic... which is why COBOL will live on for a long time. The only languages that I know of that currently support decimal arithmetic are assembler (pick your machine), PL/1 and COBOL. I think COBOL wins this one...
-- Harvey
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COBOL is still active and popular because it supports decimal arithmetic natively (ie. without having to write classes or depend on libraries). Most commercial activities are plain old "read input, massage numbers, spit out result" instead of making lists or calculating a scientific result (which is more interesting to OOP and recent paradigms). Just about every day a new language is invented by somebody, but none of them address decimal arithmetic... which is why COBOL will live on for a long time. The only languages that I know of that currently support decimal arithmetic are assembler (pick your machine), PL/1 and COBOL. I think COBOL wins this one...
-- Harvey
C# natively supports decimal.
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Why not? if it works for him. I know people who who are still driving their 1950's Ford truck. And they're happy with it. It works for them. Kinda crazy notion, huh? Yeah, yeah, I know.
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C# natively supports decimal.
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decimal
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Last someone asked me to that (though it was to be backward compatible to Win98) I pointed out that anyone too cheap too upgrade from 98 would be too cheap to buy our upgrade. I was right.
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Hey, whatever floats his boat
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I don't know how he hasn't hit an iceberg yet...
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Why not? if it works for him. I know people who who are still driving their 1950's Ford truck. And they're happy with it. It works for them. Kinda crazy notion, huh? Yeah, yeah, I know.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert EinsteinF150's don't have rendering problems
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Popularity of browsers[^] Popularity of IE versions[^]
A link from 4 years ago? That's like 28 dog years, or 5,689 internet years. Does that article also mention the top 10 gopher apps?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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F150's don't have rendering problems
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
LOL. Maybe not, but they can't haul a modern fifth wheeler either.
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Last someone asked me to that (though it was to be backward compatible to Win98) I pointed out that anyone too cheap too upgrade from 98 would be too cheap to buy our upgrade. I was right.
The problem with Managers I tell you ... so faaar from the all the action, and still thinking whatever 'he' knows could save the world some day
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I wasn't aware of that - thanks for the enlightenment. ... but C# is a manufacturer's language and suffers the same affliction of PL/1. COBOL is portable and native code and still wins the decimal battle, which is far more than a niche.
-- Harvey
H.Brydon wrote:
COBOL is portable
Every high level language is portable. Just many never get ported.
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