Cobol Isn't Dead

YellowYahoo writes "Ever wondered how to combine old and new technology for fun and profit? Doing their part to continue COBOL's dominance of installed software, Deskware has developed a COBOL based scripting language designed for serving web pages. Whether or not COBOL will succeed as the next great web language, is obvously up to some debate, but there is at least one active site deployed in Cobolscript. According to their FAQ, their main advantage is leveraging existing employees' programming knowledge. Does that make it a reasonable language to use? There's certainly some justification that COBOL makes a better langauge for implementing business rules than either Perl or Java. Time to dust off (or start learning?) all those older languages!"

Make a request.

[Hulver]

Your job will run overnight, and they'll email you the web page in the morning.

Wow

[perlyking]

Its funny that they complain about perl for being "obfuscated" yet think code like this [cobolscript.com] is fine.

One active site

[twilight30]

... there is at least one active site deployed in Cobolscript

Not after today there isn't

Cobol isn't dead. . .

[Bastian]

. . . it's undead.

Re:Make a request.

[the eric conspiracy]

they'll email you the web page in the morning ... printed by a line printer on greenbar paper, graphics rendered in ASCII.