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I'm surprised that the guys worried about one or more "collapses" aren't more into COBOL. Because when something heavy and hard hits, all that's left will be ro

by mhd 3y ago

I'm surprised that the guys worried about one or more "collapses" aren't more into COBOL. Because when something heavy and hard hits, all that's left will be roaches, COBOL and Perl scripts. But seriously, I bought some old COBOL books recently, and was meaning to get more into it. Not because of some job situation, but it seemed different enough, in a "cozy" manner. I could get away from the Algol-ish day job languages with something blatantly more concise (extremely functional, esolangs or APL), but that's more the "puzzle" aspect where COBOL might be more the "knitting" approach.

MisterBastahrd 3y ago
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- haspok 3y ago
  All naked, of course.
- mhd 3y ago
  I feel that way about knitting and jogging, so let's see how "deccelerated development" will go for my mental health.
  - derrida 3y ago
    TAOCP has COBOL exercises (not python exercises, not lisp exercises). Therefore: COBOL is superior argumentum ad knuth-ium quod erat demonstrandum
    - eddtests 3y ago
      Really? Didn’t know that, although I get stuck in the first chapters math every time I look ha
    - agumonkey 3y ago
      knuthority
theamk 3y ago
COBOL runs on mainframes, which need clean power, air conditioner, filtered air, and on-call support engineers. Those things will disappear first under any sort of collapse. If any sort of collapse hits, the popular programming jobs would be either old PCs (of which there are tons around, and which have tons of replacement parts); or repurposing old cellphones into something else (again, sheer number of things); or something super simple like 6502.