Ad Discendum, Non Ad Docendum

…живой программист на Cobol‘е

I’m an xbase (dbase/FoxBase & Pro/Clipper) and cobol programmer from way back. (Been writing code since 1980) Believe it or not, I make a VERY nice living maintaining legacy code.

According to Gartner, […] there are 250 billion lines of COBOL source code being used, with 15 billion new lines each year. A major AAA national company has some 35,000 COBOL modules plus supporting COPY books and so on in its inventory. A major airlines has 848 COBOL modules in its crew management system with some 3,000,000+ SLOC of code. Merrill-Lynch runs 70 percent of its daily business on COBOL systems.

Что самое интиресное – таки похоже на правду