[Haskell-cafe] Somewhat random history question - chicken and egg

[Tony Finch]

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, ajb at spamcop.net wrote:
>
> To be a true COBOL replacement, I think that one very important feature
> is that it is link-compatible with existing COBOL code.  You're never
> going to be able to replace a 6MLOC COBOL monster in any manner other
> than piecemeal.

AFAIK people are replacing code by writing other applications that
manipulate the same data as the legacy code but do not link with it. I
should ask my wife more about the structure of Peoplesoft. I know it's a
mixture of COBOL, PL/SQL, and Peoplecode on the server, and Java on the
client... No Haskell in it, though.

Tony.
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