the hot new programming language

Den onsdag den 1. juli 2015 kl. 21.13.49 UTC+2 skrev John Larkin:

I doubt it, the reason to teach people cobol is that there is still a ton of cobol code in use and I assume those who originally learned it is getting a bit grey

I saw an article a couple of years ago, something like 75% of all business transactions, 90% of financial transactions is still done on cobol.

-Lasse

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pretty cool.

There's an older Russian woman who lives near me who immigrated after the fall of communism. She doesn't have much money, but told me the other day that when she was a young woman she spent about fifteen years working on scientific/defense computing software behind the Iron Curtain in whatever the Soviet dialect of COBOL was at that time.

It'd be great if she could start making 100k a year at this point in her life, haha.

Oh, at least $100 per hour. $200K full time.

I think she also knows Visual Basic!

Apparently people who can resist the urge to gnaw their own leg off from boredom command a premium.

Sylvia.

Marry her!

A friend who works in support to the guys at Quantico uses Excel and Visual Basic. They all think he is a genius. He even got an award and bonus! He is no dummy for sure, a big fish in a small pond. Great guy to paddle with too.

Yup. Accountants. Lawyers. Plastic surgeons.

Cobol was designed so that bankers could code. It was brilliant.

Two of the designers were women, who were apparently more interested in solving a real problem than they were interested in playing mental games. Compare Cobol to c or Pascal or APL.

A bunch of apocryphal bullshyte, knee deep, from the department which to this day is un-auditable because of systemic incompetence and criminality.

Which department is this? Wikipedia, NBS or any of the many books written and cited?

Uh-huh, why don't you just tell us about an amateur magician, who could never make it on even the children's birthday party circuit, impressing the crowd at the local home for the mentally challenged...

o this day is un-auditable because of systemic incompetence and criminality .

" It was created as part of a US Department of Defense effort to create a p ortable programming language for data processing. Intended as a temporary s topgap, the Department of Defense promptly forced computer manufacturers to provide it, resulting in its widespread adoption."

That part is right...

The language

It's a shame that ADA wasn't as widely accepted. Programmers tend to hate safe languages that make them be careful.

As someone who knows many folks who work in the software industry/game design, it's kind of cute when EEs talk about things that they're so very sure about...;-)

How many buffer overrun vulnerabilities has Windows had so far? Round your answer to the nearest thousand.

;)

-Lasse

Den torsdag den 2. juli 2015 kl. 21.24.41 UTC+2 skrev John Larkin:

and you know for certain that if only they had used ADA everything would be perfect?

-Lasse

And run screaming in the other direction. Cobol is verbose and inflexible. Just the sheer amount of typing would slow me down a lot.

And braces plus indenting make it easy to see the structure of the program, which I count on. C++ rocks.

I also like REXX.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs