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Originally Posted by john.clowes
Dan, if it's any comfort to you, I took my first real job in 1983 as a COBOL programmer and was told then that I was crazy to do so because the language would be obsoleted in two years. Nearly 30 years later, here we are with it still in use.....
Kinda like when I moved out of my parents house back then and Mom suggested that I toss my old ball cards since they were old.
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Well put!
I actually am doing XML coming in from the net to the mainframe, neat stuff.
Using CICS Web Service and COBOL now actually has XML PARSE and GENERATE commands.
Dan