Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?

Re:Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still b... by Mister_Snuggles on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @12:21PM (#13310793)

COBOL, definitely COBOL

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Re:Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still b... by nsphere on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @01:10PM (#13311324)

Yeah me too. I can't wait to rewrite our code base in Java (not even being sarcastic), but at least we will be able to make our own objects and have recursion! Yay!

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Re:Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still b... by Mister_Snuggles on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @01:40PM (#13311702)

Lucky - you get to rewrite it.

Our COBOL comes from a software vendor, so rewriting it means waiting for them to decide that the cost of redeveloping decades of complex business logic in a new language/toolset outweighs the cost of supporting and enhancing these COBOL programs.

Fortunately it's a mostly read-only codebase. The number of times we've changed the COBOL code ourselves can probably be counted on one hand.

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Re:Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still b... by kayla210 on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @02:16PM (#13312092)

Haha, same. I may get to do some Java, but there's no telling.

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