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When was the last time a COBOL project has generated as much buzz as Perl's Mojolicious has just yesterday? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8095574 https:/
by lazyloop 12y ago
When was the last time a COBOL project has generated as much buzz as Perl's Mojolicious has just yesterday? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8095574 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8095574
- eli 12y agoThat's a little unfair. COBOL just isn't well suited to problems solved by a new web framework. Batch processing of financial data is important, but it ain't likely to generate buzz.
- spikyobjects 12y agoAs opposed to Perl, which was designed as a web framework language?
- eli 12y agoPoint taken, but Perl has a (very) long history of being the glue the holds websites (and everything else) together. I think perl files in cgi-bin is the first time I ever connected a database to a web page.
- spikyobjects 12y agoCOBOL has an even longer history processing business and financial data. Perhaps COBOL is the secret sauce that hedge funds use for high frequency trading?