[Coco] obscure programming languages was Re: books

[Alex Evans]

On  30  Nov 2007, at 2:33 PM, Mark McDougall wrote:

> Mark McDougall wrote:
>
>> They had just paid big $$$ for some consultant to architect the  
>> next-gen application framework for the whole company. The plan at  
>> one stage was to scrap all the current PC development tools and go  
>> with MicroFocus COBOL, using 3270 terminal screen-scraping for  
>> mainframe-PC communications.
>
> Oh yeah, the push was for OS/2 instead of Windows too... those  
> consultants were worth every penny eh??? ;)

Considering the state of development at the time, that probably was  
actually a decent idea.

My contact with COBOL under CP/M leads me to agree with your opinion  
of the language.  Still old code never dies.