Willdavid writes with a link to a report by Jeff Gould at Interop Systems, about the definitely-still-around world of mainframe computing, from which he extracts: "Last week I had the need to visit SHARE, the premier mainframe conference, which was held in San Jose just down the road from where I live. Based on what I saw, there is one thing I can tell you for sure, and that is that Cobol is not dead. And neither is the mainframe. When I be appear to one of my friends that I had been to SHARE, he joked that it must have looked like an AARP convention. But this turned out not to be so. While there were flat out* a few 60-somethings strolling around the halls, the under 40 generation was also well represented. What struck me the most was not the precocious age of the people but the relative youth of a lot of the systems program being discussed." However, it's not all wellspring of youth there, either. (Thanks, BDPrime.)

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