What 108 Million Lines of Code Tell Us

Posted by Mike on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 216 views

Results of the first annual report on application quality have just been released by CAST. The company analyzed 108M lines of code in 288 applications from 75 companies in various industries. In addition to the ‘usual suspects’ – COBOL, C/C++, Java, .NET – CAST included Oracle 4GL and ABAP in the report.

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Cloud Computing for the Mainframe:Cloud Compiling to Unveil Virtualized Language Compilers for z/OS at SHARE

Posted by Mike on Thursday, July 15, 2010 - 245 views

Cloud Compiling announced today that it will unveil its family of virtualized COBOL, PL/1, Fortran and C/C++ compilers for z/OS at the upcoming SHARE technology conference, taking place from August 1-5, 2010 in Boston, MA.

Cloud Compiling’s chief development officer Charles Mills, an expert in mainframe product development, will lead a technology session on cloud compiling for the mainframe.

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How to Become a World Class Computer Engineer

Posted by Mike on Monday, February 1, 2010 - 240 views

Most of you are never going to write a program C, C++ or COBOL in your lifetime. I would not advise against learning them though. After you know something … MORE

Ideone.com – For Programmers That Want To Test Code

Posted by Mike on Saturday, January 9, 2010 - 198 views

There are more than 30 languages included, as a matter of fact – COBOL, Fortran, Ruby, Pascal, C++… the list is a long one, and you are bound to find …

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