We know what COBOL stands for
Posted by Mike on Friday, May 28, 2010 - 393 views
A meeting at the Pentagon lays the foundations for the computer language that will later be known as COBOL, which goes on to become a … READ MORE
Posted by Mike on Saturday, April 3, 2010 - 836 views
What makes COBOL such a hated language?
I’m rather young and so I haven’t experienced the times when COBOL was still in use and even going mainstream, maybe you can help me out.
Everywhere I go and surf I:
* Am getting told about how horrible COBOL is
* See sites making fun of COBOL
* Hear that I should be happy that I don’t have to use COBOL, from older programmers
* See others make anti-COBOL-ist jokes
Posted by Mike on Friday, July 10, 2009 - 173 views
In the beginning, or not too long after, there was Cobol. And it was good. 1952 – “Amazing” Grace Hopper begins development of natural … MORE
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For its part, USPS had to find a way to take source code written in Cobol and reuse it on Linux. Cobol, which marks its fiftieth anniversary this year, … MORE
Posted by Mike on Thursday, July 9, 2009 - 191 views
IBM put governors on the performance of green-screen RPG and COBOL workloads on its AS/400 proprietary minicomputers in the late 1990s, and a few different … MORE
Posted by Mike on Tuesday, July 7, 2009 - 278 views
This change of attitude has given new life to the COBOL programming language as well. Many organizations are re-purposing their COBOL applications for the … MORE
Posted by Mike on Thursday, July 2, 2009 - 156 views
“We should stop discussing how to move our 1970s-era COBOL systems into Web 2.0. It’s not going to happen.” MORE
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It’s been 50 years since the initial specifications of COBOL were laid out, yet the future remains bright for the venerable programming … MORE
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