@[email protected] to Programmer [email protected] • 7 months agoNot mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alivelemmy.worldmessage-square150fedilinkarrow-up1830
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minus-squarelinuxgatorlinkEnglish26•7 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink23•7 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•7 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.
Grace Fucking Hopper
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.