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This is pretty neat, I'm not a huge COBOL fan but actually got paid once to write code that generated outreach mail for political correspondence using voter reg
by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This is pretty neat, I'm not a huge COBOL fan but actually got paid once to write code that generated outreach mail for political correspondence using voter registration data. For that, it worked really well and I could certainly appreciate the appeal for business process work.
Weirdly though, I get put off by their name, as my brain wants to pronounce it with a long o sound instead of the 'eh' sound from 'works' (werx as a spelling works better for me than worx, no pun intended). It has me wondering if people pronounce 'Torx' screws as 'Turks' screws.
- jancsika 3y agoIsn't the first "o" is a long o? As for the 2nd "o", I don't know. Whatever the case, you should say the entire word slowly and loudly since they are all capital letters. Like, imagine yourself as an inept alien spy. You walk up to a group at a party and interrupt someone in the middle of their story. "HELLO, I AM BOB FROM CORPORATE. I PROGRAM IN COBOL. HOW ARE ALL OF YOU TODAY?" That's how you should pronounce it.