On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, ajb@spamcop.net wrote:
To be a true COBOL replacement, I think that one very important feature is that it is link-compatible with existing COBOL code. You're never going to be able to replace a 6MLOC COBOL monster in any manner other than piecemeal.
AFAIK people are replacing code by writing other applications that
manipulate the same data as the legacy code but do not link with it. I
should ask my wife more about the structure of Peoplesoft. I know it's a
mixture of COBOL, PL/SQL, and Peoplecode on the server, and Java on the
client... No Haskell in it, though.
Tony.
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