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Georgian student masters the IBM mainframe

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 94 views

A Georgian College computer programming student is a master of the mainframe.

At least that’s what IBM is saying, as second-year student Nathan Voth placed second in IBM’s Master the Mainframe contest.

Read more…

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Agile is dead… as a term

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 315 views

Remember back when most developers worked with structured programming in languages like C, Fortran, Pascal, COBOL and PL/I? In our conversations and writing, many of us differentiated that new-fangled object-oriented programming and design stuff for years… And then, after a while, OOP languages and methodologies became standard. Read more on this at the SDTimes…

Cobol doesn’t belong in a museum

Posted by Mike on Monday, January 31, 2011 - 255 views

Smithsonian’s recognition is deserved, but the programming language is a long way from retirement

Last month, the Smithsonian announced plans to launch an exhibit on Cobol at the National Museum of American History. The exhibit, which is planned to open this spring, celebrates 50 years of the Cobol computer programming language, and its influence over the past five decades.

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Tek Corner: Why COBOL Is Bad For Your Health

Posted by Mike on Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 716 views

COBOL is a useful language and will remain that way for a very long time. It has and keeps serving its purpose, which is to be a language targeted at non-programmers, mostly business analysts, with very few or none programming knowledge …

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I Use Dead Programming Languages

Posted by Mike on Monday, January 4, 2010 - 280 views

Ted Neward wrote in mid-2008 that Java is Dead Like COBOL. In many ways, I still see this as the case. Java has warts and wrinkles. … MORE

RPG: A Great Language with a Greater History

Posted by Mike on Monday, August 17, 2009 - 191 views

Any outsider taking a look at the RPG IV specification of today and comparing it to any other language that exists, including COBOL, and the great PL/1, … MORE

Grace Murray Hopper: Striving For Natural Computer Language

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 238 views

The B-series led to the release in the late ’50s of Flow-Matic, which became the forerunner of COBOL — for Common Business Oriented language…

Read more here at the Philadelphia Bulletin’s website.

COBOL Support in SQL Server 2008???

Posted by Mike on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 226 views

When I started out as a programmer all those years ago, I was coding in COBOL using IBM Mainframes running MVS with IMS and DB2 Databases.

Read the rest of Brian Egler’s article here.