11 Aug
2008
11 Aug
'08
12:03 p.m.
Ray Arachelian wrote:
Sounds like what they really needed were rewrites,
Contrary to anything you may have seen in the press, it is FAR less
expensive to simply hire experienced COBOL programmers to maintain it
than to rewrite it. There are plenty of COBOL programmers out there;
they definitely have NOT all retired. But you're going to have to pay
good salaries, which is what the state is trying to avoid.
or perhaps (automated) language translators; say from
Cobol to Java.
If you do an automated translation, the result will just be COBOL that's
written in Java. You won't be able to find *anyone* that's good at
maintaining that mess.
Eric