Re: California's COBOL payroll systemThis is a discussion on Re: California's COBOL payroll system within the ASM x86 ASM 370 forums in Programming Languages category; FYI, Posted to IBM-MAIN - with MANY follow-up posts. -- Bill Klein wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com "john gilmore" <john_w_gilmore @ MSN.COM> wrote in message news:BAY104-W220CC4A942A5E8BACA5EB7C67A0 @ phx.gbl... >I like David Farber's (of course impolitic) 'vacuum tubes' analogy. > > From this morning's New York Times: > > But the California controller, John Chiang, says the state’s payroll system — > which uses a programming throwback known as Cobol, or Common Business-Oriented > Language — is so antiquated it would take months to make the changes to > workers’ checks. > > “In 2003, my office tried to see if we could ... | ||||||||
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 Re: California's COBOL payroll system FYI, Posted to IBM-MAIN - with MANY follow-up posts. -- Bill Klein wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com "john gilmore" <john_w_gilmore@MSN.COM> wrote in message news:BAY104-W220CC4A942A5E8BACA5EB7C67A0@phx.gbl... >I like David Farber's (of course impolitic) 'vacuum tubes' analogy. > > From this morning's New York Times: > > But the California controller, John Chiang, says the state’s payroll system — > which uses a programming throwback known as Cobol, or Common Business-Oriented > Language — is so antiquated it would take months to make the changes to > workers’ checks. > > “In 2003, my office tried to see if we could reconfigure our system to do such > a task,” Mr. Chiang told a State Senate committee on Monday. “And after 12 > months, we stopped without a feasible solution.” > > David J. Farber, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, > said using Cobol was roughly equivalent to having “a television with vacuum > tubes.” > > “There are no Cobol programmers around anymore,” Mr. Farber said. “They > retired centuries ago.” John GilmoreAshland, MA 01721-1817USA > __________________________________________________ _______________ > Get Windows Live and get whatever you need, wherever you are. Start here. > http://www.windowslive.com/default.h...WL_Home_082008 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to listserv@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > >  |
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