No. The COBOL argument is that it is too risky and expensive to replace it.
This could be at most "The Java argument" - there is a lot of java out there and that code ain't gonna disappear in the next 20 years. I'd say Ruby is not yet at that level.. but might come to that.
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It's the COBOL argument from the standpoint of "why should I learn ? Because there's going to be money to be made babysitting old code for the next decades."
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No. The COBOL argument is that it is too risky and expensive to replace it.
This could be at most "The Java argument" - there is a lot of java out there and that code ain't gonna disappear in the next 20 years. I'd say Ruby is not yet at that level.. but might come to that.
It's the COBOL argument from the standpoint of "why should I learn ? Because there's going to be money to be made babysitting old code for the next decades."