Gregory's Server@resuna @david_chisnall it is extremely stable and durable for sure, ask any financial institution 😃
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 Have you ever written any code in COBOL? Everything in COBOL takes longer to write, the fundamental operations are simplistic and verbose, the program structure is stilted and restrictive, the way you define data structures is horribly antiquated, and a huge number of the problems that make writing COBOL so slow and painful are due to its mistaken "language like" design. |
@ErikJonker @resuna @david_chisnall OK, but that's not because of COBOL. You could write something durable and stable in any programming language. Financial software is written in COBOL because that was the language of the mainframe at the time. The fact that it's still largely in COBOL is because it's expensive to rewrite, the returns on a rewrite are hard to quantify, and the risks are huge.