> It seems strange to be writing a book on COBOL so many
> years after its death was first predicted. Indeed, COBOL has had
> such a low profile in recent years that you might be
> forgiven for thinking that it had all but disappeared. The nature
> of our industry is such that the new and exciting always
> gets more airplay than the secure, the accurate, and the reliable.
> But while Java, C#, Ruby, Python, and Objective C have dominated
> our consciousness in recent times, in the background billions of lines
> of COBOL code have quietly gone about supporting the mission-critical applications
> that make the world work.

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> résumé that includes a knowledge of COBOL.
> Я думаю, что такие языки как COBOL заменить невозможно. Если попытаться написать
> ему замену, то снова получится COBOL. :-)

Два LISP-а с FORTRAN-ом этому анониму!