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Yes. COBOL and Usenet are both simple tools that just work and are unlikely to be used by Facebook.
by dingosity 4y ago
Yes. COBOL and Usenet are both simple tools that just work and are unlikely to be used by Facebook.
- goodpoint 4y agoWith the difference that COBOL is clunky and unpleasant while Usenet works very well and it's lightweight.
- dingosity 4y agoCOBOL does well at what it is designed to do. Don't write an operating system in COBOL. Don't write business logic in Assembly Language or C. Or not. It's a free world. Do what you want. But the purpose of COBOL isn't to show off your hot coding chops. No No. That's why ${DEITY} invented Lisp. COBOL is intended to clearly communicate how data is to be processed for business applications. And it does that reasonably well.