[Paul_S]

Oh, the irony of advocating peace and love for java whilst waging a war against COBOL.

How about we confine language battles to language specific discussions (and I don't see anything wrong with those) and concentrate the overall engineering argument on getting good practice in every language. I can get behind the sentiment of replacing legacy systems but I don't see the point in hating on COBOL.

[ArchD]

I think you missed the point. I think the point is about not having religious wars over languages for ideological reasons but instead focus on the practical cost and benefit of the languages. He pointed out the people running the COBOL mainframes were paying ridiculous licensing fees for their databases.