COBOL on Wheelchair

Re:COBOL on Wheelchair by static_typed on Sunday December 22, 2013 @05:37PM (#6952092)

The fact is COBOL is still used, and useful today, all these decades later. I wonder what the sentiment about Ruby on Fails will be in thirty years time, and I don't think we will still be using it.

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Re:COBOL on Wheelchair by vorg on Sunday December 22, 2013 @06:04PM (#6952176)

The 2 program samples in Cobol and Html shown together made me realize just how verbose Html really is, which makes me think we will still be using Html in 30 yrs time.

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Re:COBOL on Wheelchair by Mikeb85 on Sunday December 22, 2013 @06:22PM (#6952233)

Ruby will still be used years from now. Rails, probably not, but Ruby is a good language in its domain (scripting, dynamic languages).

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Re:COBOL on Wheelchair by dopamean on Sunday December 22, 2013 @07:43PM (#6952457)

I'm pretty new to Ruby and I'm already sick of people equating Ruby and Rails though I understand how it happens.

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