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Georgian student masters the IBM mainframe

Mike — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:26:45 +0000

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.

Agile is dead… as a term

Mike — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:00:10 +0000

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

Mike — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:59:36 +0000

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.

Read the rest…

Tek Corner: Why COBOL Is Bad For Your Health

Mike — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:16:06 +0000

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 …

I Use Dead Programming Languages

Mike — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:16:43 +0000

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

Mike — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:30:40 +0000

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

Mike — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:27:40 +0000

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???

Mike — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:05:57 +0000

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.

The Programmer’s Future

Mike — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:01:22 +0000

Will low-cost offshore competition and packaged apps make the in-house programmer obsolete? Coding software has been a good living for a half million or more–sometimes far more–Americans…

Read the rest here.

Add 50 to Cobol Giving Cobol

Mike — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:34:48 +0000

COBOL turns 50 some time this year and we owe a tip of the hat to this venerable language behind so many large institutions.

Read the rest here.