On Thu, August 30, 2012 22:53, David Eddy wrote:
> ...
> Depending on your age... were you aware that 500 (50%) of Social Security
> Administration's COBOL programmers will be eligible to retire by 2015. (01)
At least COBOL from the beginning encouraged (semi-)readable variable
names -- at a time when FORTRAN was pushing I, J, N for integers and
X, Y, Z for floats and in-line comments were rare. (02)
> How's the semantic stack going to help with that sort of brain drain? (03)
Tools with NL modules have a lot better chance of analyzing legacy COBOL
code than legacy FORTRAN. John's company, using semantic technology
along with NL, can do a much better job with old COBOL than you might
expect. (04)
-- doug (05)
> - David (06)
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