26 Dec
2012
26 Dec
'12
11:54 a.m.
On 12/26/2012 11:30 AM, Terry Stewart wrote:
Seen on one of my Google groups
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/21/financial_software_disasters/
Sigh, it seems that nothing's changed in the last 50 or so years. Why
anyone would want to write financial code in C++ is a little beyond me.
That being said, I recall a couple of financial applications that
*were* written in APL.
All in all, COBOL still isn't too bad for such stuff, no matter how some
people view it. The wonderful part is that it's just as possible to
write crappy code in COBOL as it is in IPL-V.
I've long wondered if the Y2K panic did more to clean up old COBOL code
or merely dirty it up more. I suspect the truth is a little of both.
--Chuck