Or Night of the Living Dead.
Bad __Stephen
On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 9:20 AM, Paul H. Tarver paul@tpcqpc.com wrote:
Did anyone catch this article about "Zombie Languages"?
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/zombie-programming- languages-could-visu al-basic-be-the-next-cobol/?ftag=TRE684d531 https://www.techrepublic.com/article/zombie-programming- languages-could-vis ual-basic-be-the-next-cobol/?ftag=TRE684d531&bhid= 19995525687222274123473679 288983 &bhid=19995525687222274123473679288983
While the article focuses on Visual Basic, I think VFP qualifies under their definition:
Zombie Languages: "Those old developer favorites that refuse to die"
To be honest, it makes all of us FoxPro coders cool again: We are all "Zombie Wranglers!"
James Milligan also drew parallels with the perennial demand for programmers skilled in venerable mainframe programming language COBOL, a language older than The Beatles. "Other languages which continue to be widely used despite running legacy systems include COBOL. It's known that COBOL tends to be preferred in business, finance and administrative systems due to its efficiency in handling large volumes of data - so it's predicted to remain popular across these sectors."Paul
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