[coldtea]

>Businesses that fail to adapt to changing markets/technology have nobody to blame but themselves when they've had 10 years to adapt or die.

What "die"? Some of the companies using Cobol or other such older technologies (e.g. Java 1.4) are among the most valuable on earth.

And why should they adapt perfectly fine working programs? Just for the sake of it, or because devs like to rewrite stuff?

[Nadya]

>Some of the companies using Cobol or other such older technologies (e.g. Java 1.4) are among the most valuable on earth.

And they pay consultants and contractors in order to continue to do so. I'm not sure I'm seeing where the problem is? Want to stick with Python 2.7? Hire specialists. Problem solved. You just no longer get free labor from the maintainers of the language.