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minus-squareesa@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·24 days agoEevee’s heteroglot entry for COBOL is interesting, coming from … practically anything else. There’s also someone doing AOC in ABAP (basically SAP COBOL) who posts over in the AOC subreddit. I’ve looked at them and … mhm, I know some of these words!
minus-squaretiredofsametab@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·24 days agoI’ve fallen down the rabbithole. I’m reading a free course (from 2001ish) on Cobol. COBOL is Maintainable I now question everything. I mean, technically, basically anything is maintainable in that it’s possible…
minus-square0x0@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·24 days agoJust remember the Voyager spacecraft are still out there… and being maintained.
Eevee’s heteroglot entry for COBOL is interesting, coming from … practically anything else.
There’s also someone doing AOC in ABAP (basically SAP COBOL) who posts over in the AOC subreddit. I’ve looked at them and … mhm, I know some of these words!
I’ve fallen down the rabbithole. I’m reading a free course (from 2001ish) on Cobol.
I now question everything. I mean, technically, basically anything is maintainable in that it’s possible…
Just remember the Voyager spacecraft are still out there… and being maintained.