The last one was laid off on Jan 2, 2000. 

''Not true. I worked with one a couple of years ago. He kept saying things like: "The Mainframe will never die" and "Java has only one future, to become JavaBOL".''

He is probably right. It is the backbone of too many mission-critical apps. It is the cockroach language: it would survive a nuclear war.

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Are they anything like "The Seasoned COBOLer" (http://web.archive.org/web/20030615143550/http://www.ai.mit.edu/~gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/msg02770.html)?

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The biggest CobolLanguage weenie has to be Charles Townsend http://www.legacyj.com/cobol/cobol_future.html

	 :	I see a long fruitful life ahead for COBOL. COBOL remains the best implementation language for business applications and will retain that distinction for the foreseeable future.

At one point I think he actually said (on comp.lang.cobol) that programmers would be obsolete.

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