I guess it makes sense. I'm sure it's hard to find somebody who is good at #cobol. I don't think that they are going to get the result they are after, based on LLMs like ChatGPT, though.
LOL using AI to convert an ancient language #COBOL into a questionable one #Java (having been a professional Java programmer in my lifetime... not my favorite language. Unless you like to chase infinite memory leaks and apps which keep on getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger, and bigger until they use all the memory available on your system.) https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/22/ibm-taps-ai-to-translate-cobol-code-to-java/
My wife and I started talking about this after she had to help an old lady at the DMV figure out how to use her iPhone to scan a QR code. We're in our early 40s.
OTD 1965: IBM announces the System/360 Model 67, their first system intended for time-sharing, and support virtual memory. Lots of interesting history around this machine. A thread: \ #ComputerHistory
"Mainframe" is such a dated term. I feel there are many modern-day equivalents to mainframes years ago, but they are rather classified as clusters or large sets of cloud and edge-computing.
CBI Image o' Day. A 1969 note from Grace Hopper to Jack Jones, US Air Force on their CODASYL work & COBOL’s creation by her, Jean Sammet, Jones, +others. Hopper is suggesting important contributors to CODASYL who were at the '59 demo, to invite for the '69 COBOL 10th Anniversary Celebration including Alan Taylor who had become Editor of then new magazine Computerworld.
Both #Python and #Javascript are being used for things it should not be. But we are in the same boat as old software using #COBOL and #C. Rewriting the software just isn't feasable.
It will take years for languages like #Go and #Rust to get the love they deserve. I am currently looking at both as my next language and project to learn.
@Perl when I became Linux Server Amin 25 years ago, I learned Perl. Because I was looking for something beyond Bash and AWK.
I love this script language. Meanwhile I have the feeling that Perl is rather retrocomputing, is my feeling wrong?
They're definitely out there. A previous boss (and current co-worker... 😀 ) did a lot of COBOL earlier in his career - he's no older than me - but still does COBOL recreationally 😂
@kyleha@ChristosArgyrop@Perl And just as it is today with #Perl, most of those mocking #COBOL have never used it and are just passing around punchlines because the punchlines are funny, tenuous connection to facts be damned.
It’s prejudicial humor, but it’s safe because it’s not about people. Same cognitive error, though.
@mjgardner@kyleha@ChristosArgyrop Any mocking of #COBOL only makes me want to learn more of it. I heard similar knocks against Fortran, and yet it’s also a well of working numerical codes people continue to draw upon, either directly, or through translation.
Do you think millennials who grew up with the early Internet and home computers will be as bad with future technology as boomers are with current technology? (dmv.pub)
My wife and I started talking about this after she had to help an old lady at the DMV figure out how to use her iPhone to scan a QR code. We're in our early 40s.