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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
If I had to guess, I'd say "We never thought anyone would still be using COBOL now, but there are still billions of lines of it in production, and no one is likely to pay to get those apps rewritten in something else, so we are stuck maintaining COBOL for the foreseeable future. Given that, we might as well try to upgrade the language to make it a little cooler and less painful to work on..."
I'm more bemused by the POSIX subsystems in z/OS. I can has Unix filesystem and use vi on my mainframe? 
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Dennis |
Yes, sir! (And IBM's version, AIX, has been around for 15 years or so....)