18 Oct
2010
18 Oct
'10
8:31 p.m.
On 18 Oct 2010 at 18:01, Al Kossow wrote:
The reason for saving RPG and COBOL isn't to look
for clever things,
it is to preserve how day to day business was performed using the
computing equipment of the time. This is the same reason to preserve
system design and procedure manuals for end-user applications.
...although there are some very clever concepts in both, but lots in
COBOL in particular. I know of at least one multi-computer
distributed real-time inventory system written in COBOL (with
considerable help from operating system facilities. Many hundreds
of thousands of lines of code.
--Chuck