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why are you using cobol?

>>24656
When I become a historian I want to write a book about it and how it just refuses to die.

>>24656
its a white mans language

>>24705
tsmt
Jeets will learn whatever they are told will get them a job in Canada or America. COBOL is for the patrician, you learn it because you want to study something archaic, as you would study history

issanother gem
tomorrow I want to add file calling and modular programming so I can make a little Tamagotchi game

>cobol
do oldsois really

>>24705
>>24710
meds
only jeets think of other languages as
>"saar my language is more brahmin than yours, you are using dalit language saar"
a language is a fucking tool not a religion

the only languages that are unquestionably jeet are webshitters thoughbeit

>>24785
saar my language is more brahmin than yours, you are using dalit language saar

>>24784
yes

How long did this take you? I might try to learn cobol for fun. Simple languages like basic are fun to push to their limits

>>24963
Depends on how driven you are and what you want to do with it. SAMS Teach Yourself COBOL in 21 days can be completed in under a week if you really want to blitz it. You can easily learn up to an intermediate level in under a month. The most raped thing about it is how archaic the file management system is. But once you understand it you understand it you know?
Please do this by the way, I want to not be the only one.

>>24964
What do you mean by file management system? Do I have to run an entire emulator for some old computer to get the full functionality?

>>25046
No nothing like that.
Its just that you have to define a file, assign the definition to an existing file, and use certain tools to tell the program how to deal with the data file and how to read it. It isnt intuitive but its simple enough to understand.

>>25046
Take a look for yourself
Basically I am using COBOL to open a text file formatted as follows:

x_ccordinate,y_coordinate,brightness value
1,1,122
2,1,124
3,1,122
4,1,123
5,1,122
etc etc etc

Convert it to a text file as follows for later use:
0001 0001 0122
0002 0001 0124
0003 0001 0122
0004 0001 0123
0005 0001 0122
etc etc etc

And then to display the record in the converted file with the highest brightness value as follows:
HIGHEST BRIGHTNESS FOUND: 0244
LOCATED AT X: 0414 Y: 0187

Here is how I did it. Open the textfile in notepad++ to see the formatting. Tomorrow I am going to try and implement pic related formula into this and find a way to make cobol generate an annulus mask

>>25133
There it is, I got the equation working in my code. There is only one more step left, to implement this equation with file reading to apply the equation to edit an array to make an annulus image processor.

>>24655 (OP)
I won, COBOL won
Annular mask generator worked
I will probably stop posting regularly about COBOL, the deed is done. Have a good week teens

OP should probably get hired by a random company that requires COBOL knowledge, keep going OP, you're doing great!

>>25355
Thats really nice of you to say. I need to learn JCL and CICS thoughbeit, because those are crucial to the mainframe environment

If I program a fully functional wave table synth in COBOL with added COBOL digital effects would anyone be willing to get the GnuCOBOL compiler to help me by demoing it?
I’ve already figured out how audio processing should work in COBOL. It’s very similar to image processing actually. You just have to convert your input to a raw data format COBOL can read. In this case you’re just taking an mp3 and converting it to a raw WAV file which is written in binary, which stores amplitude data. The COMP-5 COBOL variable definition tells it to accept and read the data for the variable as raw binary. This allowed me to make a simple oscilloscope with some basic math to make it fit into the character limit of the cmd