▲ 828 ▼ German railway seeks IT admin to manage MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 systems (www.techspot.com) submitted 2 years ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world 213 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (2 children) Let COBOL die, it's terrible. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) If it works, why would we want to go through the trouble of switching to another language that will also eventually be regarded as needing to be retired? There's decades of debugging and improvement done on their system, start over with a new system and all that work needs to be done again but with a programming language that's probably much more complex and that leaves the door open to more mistakes... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dan1101@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago I'm all for that I just never personally liked COBOL. permalink fedilink source parent [+] Pigeon@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dan1101@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) It wasn't for me, too wordy and felt more like something for accounting/corporate than a programmer. I was offered a good-paying job programming COBOL out of college but turned it down because I didn't want to spend my life with it. But that's just me. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Pigeon@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago* [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) If it works, why would we want to go through the trouble of switching to another language that will also eventually be regarded as needing to be retired? There's decades of debugging and improvement done on their system, start over with a new system and all that work needs to be done again but with a programming language that's probably much more complex and that leaves the door open to more mistakes... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dan1101@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago I'm all for that I just never personally liked COBOL. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago I'm all for that I just never personally liked COBOL. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] Pigeon@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dan1101@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) It wasn't for me, too wordy and felt more like something for accounting/corporate than a programmer. I was offered a good-paying job programming COBOL out of college but turned it down because I didn't want to spend my life with it. But that's just me. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Pigeon@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago* [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) It wasn't for me, too wordy and felt more like something for accounting/corporate than a programmer. I was offered a good-paying job programming COBOL out of college but turned it down because I didn't want to spend my life with it. But that's just me. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Pigeon@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago* [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent