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Kennah

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4. I was wondering about the future of VB ...

Reply to ChromeFoundry (Reply #3)

Fri Feb 3, 2012, 01:09 AM

Feb 2012

... but I think I would be fighting a now entrenched VB culture. COBOL system I inherited was written in 1991, and although it has been added onto, there was been no attempts to overhaul the system. Write it and leave it in place is the tendency in state government.

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Anyone (like me) still in the 20th Century writing COBOL? [View all] Kennah Feb 2012 OP

Spent four years doing conversions from COBOL. ManiacJoe Feb 2012 #1

Last time I wrote COBAL it was on punched cards (1980?) OffWithTheirHeads Feb 2012 #2

Converted a lot of COBOL to .Net ChromeFoundry Feb 2012 #3

I was wondering about the future of VB ... Kennah Feb 2012 #4

VB.NET will be around for a long time EvolveOrConvolve Feb 2012 #5

I will inherit some VB6 Kennah Feb 2012 #6

"they used a Rapid Application Development model like VB to launch C#" hootinholler Mar 2012 #13

VB.net AgingAmerican Oct 2012 #17

Many programmers consider VB a 'toy' language AgingAmerican Oct 2012 #18

Not me personally naragdaban Feb 2012 #7

I've never WRITTEN it, but always been able to read it - turn the listing upside down. HopeHoops Mar 2012 #8

Haven't written in COBOL in years, SnowCritter Mar 2012 #9

Some days, writing COBOL feels like a criminal offense Kennah Mar 2012 #11

Well, it is - SnowCritter Mar 2012 #12

Spam deleted by TBF (MIR Team) sammuel Mar 2012 #10

RPG Stroked Jun 2012 #14

RPG is probably as rare as Assembler Kennah Jun 2012 #15

I did COBOL for 10 years until I got the RIF in December. valerief Aug 2012 #16