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Why the shot at COBOL here? COBOL's creation of "real world value" by comparison is hardly a low bar: https://thenewstack.io/cobol-everywhere-will-maintain/ htt
by Brass 8y ago
Why the shot at COBOL here? COBOL's creation of "real world value" by comparison is hardly a low bar: https://thenewstack.io/cobol-everywhere-will-maintain/ https://thenewstack.io/cobol-everywhere-will-maintain/
- pdpi 8y agoCOBOL was the state of the art when it was designed, but any evolution on top of that is, by necessity, limited by a 60-year-old core design. While it _has_ produced a lot of real world value in the almost 6 decades of its existence, starting a new project in COBOL would be ill-advised. Existing projects were written in whatever language for whatever reasons, it's "Would I start a project in this language today?" that's the bar to beat in terms of language "quality" and, in that sense, COBOL is a fairly low bar for most domains.