rhabarba

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   by rhabarba 6y ago

   Microfocus dominates on Windows, and rightfully so. Integrating .NET with COBOL was a very good idea for both them and their clients.
2. 242.▲
   by rhabarba 6y ago

   Well, if they paid for COBOL courses, that is. COBOL still evolves.
3. 243.▲
   by rhabarba 6y ago

   Depends on the age of the managers, I guess...
4. 244.▲
   by rhabarba 6y ago

   Buy one. IBM still produces them.
5. 245.▲
   by rhabarba 6y ago

   Quite a few companies have specialized in migrating COBOL to C# or Java code, so I’m not surprised. I wonder why they choose those languages as one-trick ponies though. Seems like the “we only have a hammer” problem.
6. 246.▲
   by rhabarba 6y ago

   I should probably post more APL news.
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   by rhabarba 6y ago

   I disagree with your definition of modern programmers. I mean, we still emulate VT100 terminals on our 2020 MacBooks (poorly), so the implication that everything old must be renewed is - in theory - good, but COBOL is probably not the first
8. 248.▲
   by rhabarba 6y ago

   Keeping the sources in SCCS would make it harder to pull the whole archive, I guess.
9. 249.▲
   by rhabarba 6y ago

   Revolutionizing the world with COBOL? Game’s on!
10. 250.▲
    by rhabarba 6y ago

    GnuCOBOL seems to be the de-facto standard COBOL implementation on Unix-like platforms these days, so (at least) it is a notable software. They seem to have no actual blog, so the changelog is the best news link I could come up with...
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    by rhabarba 6y ago

    Coolness is probably not what matters in a programming language - but they’re efficient in their niches.
12. 252.▲
    by rhabarba 6y ago

    At least they will pay you well.
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    GnuCOBOL 3.1.1(sourceforge.net)

    173 points by rhabarba 6y ago|225 comments
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    by rhabarba 6y ago

    Still waiting for moving salt shakers to fight the French Cybermen army, to be honest.
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    French army gets go-ahead to create ‘bionic soldiers’ to make them stronge(thesun.co.uk)

    2 points by rhabarba 6y ago|1 comments
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    by rhabarba 6y ago

    I found some Rust similarities in PHP 8’s new features (match, #[] annotations, ...), so this fits in somehow.
17. 257.▲
    by rhabarba 6y ago

    Pros: - Introducing Rust’s null-safe operator. Cons: - Still having null as a possible value.
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    PHP 8.0 Is Released(php.net)

    1 points by rhabarba 6y ago|4 comments
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    by rhabarba 6y ago

    Nice idea as well!
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    by rhabarba 6y ago

    This is my first serious(ish) Rust project. I still need to learn a lot, but I hope you wouldn’t notice. Please, by all means: If you find an obvious mistake, send me a patch. :-) (Also, I deliberately made it easy to add new sites. You are
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    Show HN: Yaydl – yet another YouTube down loader (in Rust)(github.com)

    20 points by rhabarba 6y ago|4 comments
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    by rhabarba 6y ago

    It even explains Python: > The resulting interpreter will run very slowly because of the LORD ;-)
23. 263.▲
    by rhabarba 6y ago

    I love how these blog entries keep ignoring the non-Linux world.
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    King James Programming(kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com)

    1 points by rhabarba 6y ago|1 comments
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    by rhabarba 6y ago

    Technically, even streaming is making a copy.
26. 266.▲
    by rhabarba 6y ago

    Then why does the takedown matter? See, the infrastructure still revolves around one master repository.
27. 267.▲
    by rhabarba 6y ago

    Ahh, centralized version control. Such a good idea.
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    by rhabarba 6y ago

    Ah. Too sophisticated...
29. 269.▲
    by rhabarba 6y ago

    I use bookmarks.
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    by rhabarba 6y ago

    S-expressions are the most logical representation of data structures. “CAR”/“CDR” are not a part of the expression syntax, so this argument against them won’t matter.