/tech/ - Soyence and Technology

I always thought cobol was considered hard because of memory operations like in assembly or some shit
but no, it's just incredibly wordy and outdated language some retarded boomers made

>>24616
Its also extremely reliable and efficient to an unbelievable extent. To get it to work might take over 500 lines but when it works, it just works. You will never get a failure from a solid COBOL code

>>24621
why not make a same language but with syntax that doesn't sound like grandma's shopping list then

>>24622
Because Im not Terry Davis, I can't just MAKE a language chud

IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. ADD01.
DATA DIVISION.
FILE SECTION.

WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 FIRST-NUM PICTURE IS 99.
01 SECOND-NUM PICTURE IS 99.
01 RESULT PICTURE IS 999.

PROCEDURE DIVISION.
PROGRAM-BEGIN.

DISPLAY "NUM".
ACCEPT FIRST-NUM.

DISPLAY "SECOND-NUM".
ACCEPT SECOND-NUM.

COMPUTE RESULT = FIRST-NUM + SECOND-NUM.

DISPLAY "The Result".
DISPLAY RESULT.

PROGRAM-DONE.
STOP RUN.

>issa gem

Let me tell you some SNCA about COBOL that makes it really cool

It uses Fixed-Point Arithmetic instead of Floating-Point arithmetic
It calculates numbers exactly the way a human does (base 10), not how a computer CPU usually does (base 2) because it was made before CPUs existed

>>24667
that sounds kinda inefficient but ok

>>24673
It’s efficient enough to carry like 70% of the global financial transaction system.

>>24674
even though DA JOOOOOOOS who own finance can just buy more computers to brute force the inefficient code

>>24615 (OP)
The only place it exists today is banking and even that's going away

>>24681
They have been saying its going to be going away for decades now. I think that this time it might actually, because LLMs are uniquely well equipped for porting COBOL. Thats not why I am learning it though, truth be told. I don't want to work as a code monkey.