https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/202 ... lp-states/
JBI, I bet you have some cool insight/stories to share about this.
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Igor_Kavinski wrote:Do you know a successful Cobol programmer in real life?
Redocbew wrote:Languages never die. They just fade from popularity.
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Captain Ned wrote:JBI twigged me to this. Visual COBOL. Putting those two words into a single statement makes my brain hurt.
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Captain Ned wrote:JBI twigged me to this. Visual COBOL. Putting those two words into a single statement makes my brain hurt.
JBI wrote:In fact, there's one developer in particular that I remember (goes back quite a few years though...) who defined a whole bunch of macros to make his C code look more like COBOL. Really annoyed all the other developers who had to deal with his code. We basically told him to knock it off... OR ELSE!