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minus-squareAwoo [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38·edit-24 days agoReading 100 lines of cobol and trying to discern wtf those lines are supposed to do is a day long task depending on annotation quality. 200million? You’re fucked. Imagine if it were written in perl though.
minus-squareGorb [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·4 days agoCobol designers: lets make a language managers can read Makes a language nobody can read Oh to be a fly on the wall observing the creation of IBM COBOL and z/OS. Honestly considering a job doing it for the shits and giggles
minus-squaremerthyr1831linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·4 days agoI suppose compared to punchcards it was probably intuitive as fuck.
minus-squareDessa [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·4 days agoto be fair, 200 million lines in COBOL is the equivalent of 50 in any other language
minus-squareTheSpectreOfGay [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·4 days agohonestly i don’t think cobol is that bad, but maybe it’s because i learned perl first fuck perl
minus-squarevegeta1 [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-24 days agoI don’t know what any of this means but this is easy work. I’m built different.
Reading 100 lines of cobol and trying to discern wtf those lines are supposed to do is a day long task depending on annotation quality.
200million? You’re fucked.
Imagine if it were written in perl though.
Cobol designers: lets make a language managers can read
Makes a language nobody can read
Oh to be a fly on the wall observing the creation of IBM COBOL and z/OS. Honestly considering a job doing it for the shits and giggles
I suppose compared to punchcards it was probably intuitive as fuck.
to be fair, 200 million lines in COBOL is the equivalent of 50 in any other language
honestly i don’t think cobol is that bad, but maybe it’s because i learned perl first
fuck perl
I don’t know what any of this means but this is easy work. I’m built different.