Giving up on dynamic languages

April 1st, 2008 | Posted in development |

Faithful readers, the time has come for me to give up on dynamic languages all together. Utility, speed, innovation all leads to maintenance headaches down the road so it is time for me to pick up something tried and true. I talked with a good friend of mine, a Dr. Sloof Lirpa, head of the CS department at the University of Oklahoma, and he suggested something that blew my mind.

Yes, I am going to program solely in COBOL.

COBOL has been around for ages and has been time-tested in the enterprise. That’s what is important, right? Why change when COBOL worked just fine in business for our fathers?

But I can’t forget years of innovation that has happened since the advent of COBOL in the business. So to bring a bit of modern innovation to the world of COBOL, I found a great framework for developing applications: COBOL on Cogs. This will be a great way to develop code and make it enterprisey enough to land the Big Bucks!

Who is with me in this venture?

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