Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 11 months agoNot mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alivelemmy.worldimagemessage-square149fedilinkarrow-up1838arrow-down143
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minus-squarelinuxgator@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down1·11 months agoCobol is the B-52 of programming languages. Sure there are fancy and expensive new ones or there, but it’ll probably outlast them all.
minus-squarehglman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23·11 months agoThat’s a pretty good analogy, but it’s Fortran and B-52. Fortran is very good at what it does to this day. Cobol was never good.
minus-squarepomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 months agoSo move fast and break things, 60s edition.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up7·11 months agoCobol is a Hornet. Still used for production in first-world countries, but basically just because of shitty, slow-moving institutions.
Cobol is the B-52 of programming languages. Sure there are fancy and expensive new ones or there, but it’ll probably outlast them all.
That’s a pretty good analogy, but it’s Fortran and B-52. Fortran is very good at what it does to this day. Cobol was never good.
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So move fast and break things, 60s edition.
Cobol is a Hornet. Still used for production in first-world countries, but basically just because of shitty, slow-moving institutions.