paul_the_kelly wrote:

COBOL is now available to run under .NET or JVM, has proper OO, and you can run your applications on Windows, Linux, Unix or up in the cloud. Oh, and we've demonstrated them running on android phones too. That modern enough for you? See:
 
http://visualcobol.microfocus.com/[^] or http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/20/cobol_update/[^]

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: I would much rather be writing structured COBOL, then fixing the scattered mindless dribble, in the Language of the month, that comes out of most of these hot shots that call themselves programmers today. 400,000 11 x 17 scanned images converted from tiff to Xerox Image format printed at 136 pages a minute every 5 days, all done with COBOL. Oh and wrote to 9-Track and 3490E Cartridge tapes too, from COBOL, under dos. Where was that Job located? It may solve my headache of dealing with DeVry Grads, that think they are programmers.