COBOL
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Is COBOL still a thing? The syntax looks fucking retarded.
Yes, because of the ridiculous amount of legacy code.
yes if you are writing for NASA
>>53865185
>object-oriented cobol
>>53865391
Why does NASA use it?
>>53865529
They don't currently. But older satellites/probes floating around up there are still running it.
>>53865185
at the heart of every financial institution in the west there is, if you dig deep enough, a mainframe running COBOL code from the 60s. It's maintained since it's considered too risky and expensive to replace.
I don't know what's worse, that or what the replacement would look like, since it'd probably be some Windows Server/Java abomination made by Pajeets.
>>53867083
I thought fortran was financial and cobol was science? I got out of tech when I saw Pajeet coming though, long time ago. No competing with our fecal friends.
>>53867190
FORTRAN is science COBOL is finance.
>>53867190
FORTRAN is scientific/technical/engineering/etc, COBOL is business.
>>53866931
Didnt those run forth?
Reminder that COBOL would have prevented Heartbleed and countless other bugs.
>>53868400
>implementing SSL in COBOL
>>53868453
It can't be any worse than implementing it in C.
>>53868356
Actually I think the new ones run forth
>>53868477
It definitely can. I worked with COBOL. The horrors...
>>53865185
Yes, and yes it is retarded.
>>53865185
> using small characters in COBOL
>>53865185
>COBOL still a thing
What do you mean by "thing", Peasant? If you somehow mean "viable Business-Oriented Language" then yes, it still is that.
Lrn2business, pleb
It is, but last time I checked sources said the job market for the entire world was less than 200 and they're all already taken.
>>53870090
>calling someone a peasant
sure is reddit in here lads
Yes it is, in the Netherlands, COBOL is the best paid language since mostly banks still use it and nobody actually knows the language.
>>53874893
Fuck yeah I'm actually Dutch. I know Java, Python and MATLAB so I might now even learn COBOL.
