mesamune to [email protected]English • 16 hours agoThe World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore (COBOL History lesson)www.youtube.commessage-square55arrow-up1109arrow-down18
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minus-squareHanrahanlinkfedilinkEnglish5•3 hours agoAt Uni doing CompSci in the mid 1980s, we were told the likes of Cobol was dead, and we were taught Pascal :)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•4 minutes agoCobol is dead. And I think it’s about time to start telling people Java and Perl are dead, so they can marvel at how much Cobol and Java and Perl are still doing in production after death.
minus-square@AnUnusualReliclink2•2 hours agoThey could probably tweak Watson to turn Cobol into Pascal.
At Uni doing CompSci in the mid 1980s, we were told the likes of Cobol was dead, and we were taught Pascal :)
Cobol is dead.
And I think it’s about time to start telling people Java and Perl are dead, so they can marvel at how much Cobol and Java and Perl are still doing in production after death.
They could probably tweak Watson to turn Cobol into Pascal.