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auf jeden Fall werde ich bei unserem nächsten Teamwork-Day einen Slot "#COBOL für Frontender" anbieten :-D
soll ich meine #COBOL-Journey verbloggen?
Hab meiner Mutter erzählt, dass ich mit dem Gedanken spiele, aus Jux #COBOL zu lernen.
Ihr erster Gedanke war, dass ich mir das doch von meinem Arbeitgeber bezahlen lassen könnte 
(bin Frontend-Entwicklerin)
Uniformed pondering re Vatican
I thought ex-pope Benedict was still around. I imagined him in a cottage on Vatican grounds, wearing sweats and a Ramones T-shirt, managing a vague "hey" at the coffee machine.
But wikipedia tells me he died back in 2023. That seemed to go by rather quietly amid the COVID mayhem.
It would've been good to have a retired backup pope, you'd think. You could call them back into service like an old #COBOL programmer, for a short stint while waiting for the white smoke.
New programming language Kobold and the d is silent
The Coding Language Caught in DOGE's Crosshairs
@clive speaks to Brooke Gladstone about #COBOL and manages to touch upon the gendered roles of coding and tag #GraceHopper and #FlowMatic on his way to explaining why “modernizing” old code on this scale cannot be done in a few months, why old code works well, and why #AI won’t necessarily help them do it well. #OnTheMedia
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/the-coding-language-caught-in-doges-crosshairs
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or…
WNYC Studios@linuxnews Letzte Woche mit einem Kunden gesprochen, arbeitet in einer Krankenkasse. Sind dabei von #Cobol auf #Java "umzustellen". Hat sich die Deutsche Bank schon von OS/2 verabschiedet? Oder: Welcher historische Zeichensatz wird in Überweisungen verwendet?
Man will es gar nicht alles wissen.
#alterSack
What's the deal with "tech" industry, aren't there other industries? Is it because it is the only industry left in EU/UK/US while manufacturing has moved? Or because it is fashionable more profitable?
Because it pays well at the moment? So did #cobol programming and stick welding
Whenever the topic is raised in popular media about…
HackadayPorting COBOL Code and the Trouble With Ditching Domain Specific Languages - Whenever the topic is raised in popular media about porting a codebase written in ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/16/porting-cobol-code-and-the-trouble-with-ditching-domain-specific-languages/ #softwaredevelopment #featured #interest #gnucobol #fortran #cobol
Mind blown. You can run IBM #zos on a PC with a personal edition license.
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zdt/14.2.x?topic=personal-edition
And it has IBM #COBOL inside it. I don't understand why this was so hard for me to find. Looks like I need a new machine (linux host, 1tb drive space and then enough oomph to run a VM)
ZD&T Personal Edition enables a single user to run…
www.ibm.comStreaming data support for #COBOL. Adds a processing mode to augment Batch and Transaction style processing:
https://hackernoon.com/announcing-the-cobol-streamhouse?ref=hackernoon.com
COBOL implementation of Apache Kafka and Iceberg.
hackernoon.comJust watched an #IBMZDay session about the #COBOL Upgrade Advisor for z/OS (CUAZ), and it reminded me that the feelings people have about COBOL being old are so weird.
There are new Enterprise COBOL compilers being released on a regular basis, with new features. And new (first released in 2021, and continually improving) tools like CUAZ to help with upgrades!
Oh, and COBOL is still really good at what it does.
#OnThisDay Venus_de_Milo, the famous #Greek #Sculpture, was discovered (1820) by a peasant.
Grace Hopper led development of #COBOL (1959).
Birth Anniversary of American #Biochemist Melvin Calvin (1911) - most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Doge mucking up SSA software p2
The fact that a once reliable website now regularly crashes also indicates that these Doge techies don't really understand the basics of website configuration and server needs. I feel sorry for anyone who is not already on Social Security. Trying to start your benefits now sounds like it will be very rough.
https://www.rawstory.com/social-security-doge/
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Doge mucking up SSA software
This is certainly disheartening. I was extremely concerned about Doge trying to modify or rewriting COBOL software. AI isn't going to be much help because bugs will arise and AI, which created the bug, will not be able to fix it without knowledgeable assistance. I don't think COBOL has been taught in decades.
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I would be a greybeard #UNIX guy if I could grow a non-scraggley beard, and it's unfair to the #DOGE teens to claim that the IRS and Social Security rely on ancient #COBOL code that only a few people alive actually understand. They also rely on ancient #FORTRAN code and even I never studied that at Computer Camp.