"Reports of my death have been exaggerated"

Sheesh. This article discusses the top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills.

Methinks they doth protest too much. First of all, it's COBOL (all caps) since it's an acronym--not "Cobol". Bzzzt! Thanks for playing.

COBOL isn't dead, not if my company is any indication. I have to think there are a lot of other large enterprises with tons of legacy COBOL that they're feverishly working on extending (and not just on "life support", either). At one time we may have dreamed of ditching this stuff, but today we realize the investment is still generating returns, and still remains too expensive to replace. My guess? Fools will still be singing of the death of COBOL when I'm dead (probably in 30 years), and it still won't be dead. Uh-uh, ain't gonna do it!

Still in use where I work: IMS and Cold Fusion. I can't say about the futures of those, but it's reasonable that if Computerworld was off on their COBOL prediction, what's the chances they got some other things wrong, as well? Like I said: sheeh!