100 Years of Grace Hopper 184
theodp writes "Grab your COBOL Coding Forms and head on over to comp.lang.cobol, kids! Yesterday was Grace Hopper's 100th birthday, and many are still singing the praises of her Common Business-Oriented Language."
Kids: Learn COBOL, stay employed (Score:4, Insightful)
COBOL programmers are retiring fast, in 5-10 years expect a mini-boom for this skill set as those who didn't migrate before Y2K decide it's finally time.
"amazing grace" indeed (Score:4, Insightful)
more girls - and hell, more boys for that matter - need to learn about people like her.
Re:Kids: Learn COBOL, stay employed (Score:3, Insightful)
(when you mentioned 5-10 I just couldn't resist
Re:Kids: Learn COBOL, stay employed (Score:4, Insightful)
Yes, it works. And yes, it works because nobody dares to touch it. Besides, people who praise COBOL often forget that only a small fraction of COBOL code has survived. Most of the bad code has been replaced by code in another languages long ago.
There are far better tools now: Java/C# for business logic, BPEL for orchestration, rule engines, SQL stored procedures to work with large amounts of data, etc.
Re:Women (Score:5, Insightful)
Men have Perl: a series of unintelligable grunts.