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gnu-cobol is likely what you're after (cloudflare even used it to demo their Worker platform) but my experience has been that the language isn't the nonsense it
by mdaniel 1y ago
gnu-cobol is likely what you're after (cloudflare even used it to demo their Worker platform) but my experience has been that the language isn't the nonsense it's the environmental that's horrific to port
Consider a hypothetical Python example:
import os
os.system("DIRECTORY ./SHELVED_STATE")
if you ported the python to C# it wouldn't suddenly work on Windows or Linux
- rbanffy 1y agoMainframe OSs are fun to learn precisely because they are profoundly alien to users of modern computers. You don’t even need to go the mainframe route - installing OpenVMS on an x86 machine already gives you an environment full of mysteries to be explored.