We know what COBOL stands for
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.
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…
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.
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 …
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
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
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.
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.
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