From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED.Ry1GfOCil8z4iThfpbQjlA.user.gioia.aioe.org!not-for-mail From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: COBOL Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 17:40:49 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: Reply-To: nma@12000.org NNTP-Posting-Host: Ry1GfOCil8z4iThfpbQjlA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.5.0 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:58347 Date: 2020-04-11T17:40:49-05:00 List-Id: On 4/11/2020 4:16 PM, Bruce Hennessy wrote: > https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/business/coronavirus-cobol-programmers-new-jersey-trnd/index.html?utm_source=wnd&utm_medium=wnd&utm_campaign=syndicated > "New Jersey, Gov. Phil Murphy has put out a call for volunteers who know how to code the decades-old computer programming language called COBOL because many of the state's systems still run on older mainframes." Good, so Ada still have hope then. All what we need then is a way to start a third world war, and then the defense department will make similar call hiring all the Ada programmers it can find to update the old Ada software used in 80's to build the software which guides those warheads in the skies. --Nasser