{"id":534,"date":"2009-04-09T09:13:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T09:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=534"},"modified":"2009-04-09T09:13:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T09:13:05","slug":"the-undead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/the-undead\/","title":{"rendered":"The undead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COBOL turns <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2009\/apr\/09\/cobol-internet-programming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">50 this year<\/a>, but still has the energy and enthusiasm of a someone much younger. Perhaps 50 is the new 30, or even the new <a href=\"http:\/\/java.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">14<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But are companies really relying on a half-century-old invention to handle large chunks of their dealings? Mike Madden, development service manager with the catalogue-shopping firm JD Williams, believes so.<br \/>\nBetter known for its online stores, such as Simply Be and Fifty Plus, Madden says JD Williams remains highly dependent on Cobol applications. &#8220;We have a huge commitment to Cobol,&#8221; he says. &#8220;About 50% of our mainframe systems use it.&#8221;<br \/>\nWhy? &#8220;Simple &#8211; we haven&#8217;t found anything faster than Cobol for batch-processing,&#8221; Madden says. &#8220;We use other languages, such as Java, for customer-facing websites, but Cobol is for order processing. The code matches business logic, unlike other languages.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COBOL turns 50 this year, but still has the energy and enthusiasm of a someone much younger. Perhaps 50 is the new 30, or even the new 14! But are companies really relying on a half-century-old invention to handle large chunks of their dealings? Mike Madden, development service manager with the catalogue-shopping firm JD Williams, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-technology","p1","y2009","m04","d09","h09"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}