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submitted 4 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/memes@sopuli.xyz

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

TL;DR: it's probably not that hard to pick up compared to the complex and deep stacks we use today. Someone will give it a shot.

COBOL is in a special place in our computing legacy. It's too new to require intimate knowledge of the electronics that drive it (older systems and machine-code did), and is too old to be all that complicated (target machines were much smaller and slower). I would wager it's actually not that hard to learn, and is probably a dream to code with modern equipment. You won't be slowed down by punchcards, tape drives, time sharing, etc., and can probably use VSCode and an emulator to cover a ton of ground. The computing model is likely a straight line (storage -> compute -> storage), with little to no UI. In other words: simple by today's standards.

[–] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

The last update in the standard is from 2023 and includes OOP.

[–] lorty@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

If you are new it's probably easy. If you have some experience the roughness of it will drive you mad.

[–] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Thanks so much for this reply!