Comment on Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive
user1234@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
Cobol is the B-52 of programming languages. Sure there are fancy and expensive new ones or there, but it’ll probably outlast them all.
hglman@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s a pretty good analogy, but it’s Fortran and B-52. Fortran is very good at what it does to this day. Cobol was never good.
aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Grace Fucking Hopper Image
pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
So move fast and break things, 60s edition.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
Cobol is a Hornet. Still used for production in first-world countries, but basically just because of shitty, slow-moving institutions.