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Re:Banks should let COBOL die by lowken10 on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @11:46AM (#14204001)
The company I work for has piles of Visual Basic 6 code that will be here for as long as their product is viable (Prepaid credit cards services). The growth is simply not their to perform a rewrite. It's sad but is also a reality.
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Re:Banks should let COBOL die by Koshkin on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @01:45PM (#14205243)
I clearly remember VB6 being an excellent tool. Quality of code varied widely between developers.
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Re:Banks should let COBOL die by shepardrtc on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @02:17PM (#14205541)
VB6 was incredibly easy to work with, and honestly, the value it provided by being able to link a quickly-made, solid UI with easy, solid code was highly underrated.
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Re:Banks should let COBOL die by noir_lord on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @03:03PM (#14205955)
Same with Delphi which had a better underlying language than BASIC, fast compiles, superb version support and a stunning VCL (visual component library), it took VS studio years to catch up with a lot of that.
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