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I ask because your parent comment certainly rings true if this is all COBOL!
You just couldn’t write them all over again, there isn’t a team on earth that could, even with infinite money. You’d be talking, I think, more than high double digits, millions of LOC.
JavaScript by comparison .. today it’s React/Angular, but it is very fluid. Not much code will be practically reusable in 5/yr from now.
Love the insight. Established businesses like banks look for this kind of stability. And upstarts who build from ground up to challenge status quo, they go on to figure out ways to win with es6 and their friends.
Is that really true? If you look at a lot of JS from 5, 10 or even 20 years ago it still works. The main things that stop it working are security changes, which is arguably a good thing. I don't see why many of today's JS libs will stop working in the future unless there's a good reason why they should.
1. They are already in place and in use.
or
2. Vendor/consultant is aware of them.
> console.log(0.1 * 0.1)
0.010000000000000002Incidentally, this was actually faster than binary floating-point on the machines for which COBOL was designed, which used EBCDIC and had special circuitry for arithmetic on binary-coded-decimal numbers. You could operate directly on the decimal representation without having to do any conversion for I/O.
A current issue is that a lot of programmers are bad at integer arithmetic. It isn't really taught in school.
- Generate native windows interfaces with COBOL, to the point where only a few lines of code create a control like a data grid, button or text entry with rich functionality. You’d never know these snappy native apps, with features like visual data validation and asynchronous menus/context popups, are COBOL.
- Render rich web pages with COBOL using a in-house DSL that automatically become somewhat responsive between devices. The presentation information streams over a web socket so it’s snappy and as responsive as the above desktop application
- Perform complex queries and rich data validation. A few lines of code can automatically be linked to grid view that has HEAPS of built-in functionality like export or data side-view (link applications/side panels to the currently selected row), app row highlighting and styling, auto pagination with range expand, column sorting, reorder, filtering, conditional highlight and more.
So yeah, COBOL isn’t dead. It’s actually the coolest damn thing Ive seen in a while. Because it’s pretty high-level we can build whatever we need on top as a runtime and the same apps can run on the web, native desktop, handheld tablet or on an old VT100 over SSH.