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.
In fairness, PL wars have existed since the dawn of highlevel programming; the animosity between the FORTRAN and LISP communities are legendary. Basically, the only thing programmers at large could agree upon was to dunk on COBOL.
I have myself worked in large corporations most of my life and have to come to respect many of the ideas in COBOL as very well suited to such environments.
If you should ever find yourself needing to parse fixed-length records with no delimiters (some legacy government data is provided in this format) then that might be a good excuse to learn a little COBOL.
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It’s prejudicial humor, but it’s safe because it’s not about people. Same cognitive error, though.
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in reply to Mark Gardner • • •In fairness, PL wars have existed since the dawn of highlevel programming; the animosity between the FORTRAN and LISP communities are legendary. Basically, the only thing programmers at large could agree upon was to dunk on COBOL.
I have myself worked in large corporations most of my life and have to come to respect many of the ideas in COBOL as very well suited to such environments.
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