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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1997 Short Picks
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To: Roger A. Babb who wrote (4632)8/11/1997 9:33:00 PM
From: hasbeen101   of 9285
 
>>Don't make fun of the Cobol programmers, I am one of those ancient relics and probably wrote about as much of that old code as any one around. Which is also why I know that y2k is mostly scam based on a little fact.

Roger, what I meant was that I don't see much demand for Cobol programming after the year 2000. A lot of the legacy applications are being rewritten, and the other ones are having this last burst of maintenance because they were never written with the turn of the century in mind. I think the key points we agree on are that:

1. Before the year 2000, this problem will not be as much of a money-maker for companies like DDIM as some people believe; and
2. After the year 2000, these companies will be expert in a programming language (Cobol) that has a pretty limited future. It's hard to see how they could make a lot of money in the new millenium.
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