Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 10 months agoNot mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alivelemmy.worldimagemessage-square124fedilinkarrow-up1758
arrow-up1717imageNot mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alivelemmy.worldPotatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 10 months agomessage-square124fedilink
minus-squarehglman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23·10 months agoThat’s a pretty good analogy, but it’s Fortran and B-52. Fortran is very good at what it does to this day. Cobol was never good.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6·10 months agoCobol is a Hornet. Still used for production in first-world countries, but basically just because of shitty, slow-moving institutions.
That’s a pretty good analogy, but it’s Fortran and B-52. Fortran is very good at what it does to this day. Cobol was never good.
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Cobol is a Hornet. Still used for production in first-world countries, but basically just because of shitty, slow-moving institutions.