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A touching article! I have enjoyed similar times with my grandpa. On the topic of Cobol, I simply don't understand why people hate it so much. It has a shallow
by gpraghu 2y ago
A touching article! I have enjoyed similar times with my grandpa. On the topic of Cobol, I simply don't understand why people hate it so much. It has a shallow learning curve like Python, is self-documenting enough that one doesn't need to write a bunch of text, and is available on every conceivable architecture, with great performance. I personally wrote a payroll for an entire factory on a B1800 with 128K of memory and a 10MB hard disk! So what's to complain? In my mind, Java is deader than Cobol!
- ape4 2y agoIts the amount of boiler plate that people hate.
- acdha 2y agoI think there’s something to that but there’s also a lot of selectivity there. Many of the same people who complained about COBOL because it was verbose adopted things like enterprise Java, so there’s more than a suggestion that this might be a less than completely objective assessment. The bigger problem: COBOL was an open standard but none of the implementations were open source for ages (I haven’t looked at GNU COBOL in years, but I think this is no longer the case) so nobody was building new things or experience when they had to pay to get started.