Is this your idea of a development environment?

Perhaps not!!!

Things have certainly moved on over the last 50 years. Today Micro Focus has a range of development environments across multiple platforms each one tuned to the efficient development and deployment of COBOL. In general, the entire programming world is consolidating around either Microsoft’s Visual Studio or Eclipse and Micro Focus now has great COBOL programmer support in both.

At Micro Focus Live, I’m going to be reviewing the current status of COBOL development environments and taking a look at the current drivers in the industry and how they are affecting our plans for COBOL development going forward. This session will be of interest to any Micro Focus users whether they are currently using RM COBOL, ACUCOBOL, Micro Focus COBOL or deploying applications to IBM Mainframes.

I promise the future development environment won’t involve valves or patch boards (although I suspect there are a few people around that will be disappointed to hear that!)