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When you think of languages you might read about on Hackaday, COBOL probably isn’t one of them. The language is often considered mostly for business applications and legacy ones, at that. The…
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COBOL @programming.dev 0x0 @programming.dev The NSA Has a Long-Lost Lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper
www.schneier.com The NSA Has a Long-Lost Lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper - Schneier on SecurityThe NSA has a video recording of a 1982 lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper titled “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People.” The agency is (so far) refusing to release it. Basically, the recording is in an obscure video format. People at the NSA can’t easily watch it, so they can’t reda...
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The NSA has a video recording of a 1982 lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper titled “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People.” The agency is (so far) refusing to release it.
Basically, the recording is in an obscure video format. People at the NSA can’t easily watch it, so they can’t redact it. So they won’t do anything.
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COBOL @programming.dev RadioRavenRide @programming.dev Introducing Otterkit: A Modern FOSS COBOL Compiler
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Introducing Otterkit COBOL
Given that this is a community about the COBOL programming language, I'd like to take the opportunity to make a post about this project that I'm a part of. Our goal is to create a compiler implementing the ISO 2023 standard of the COBOL language. If you're confused/interested in what that means, please read further.
Why a new COBOL Compiler?
It is often believed that COBOL is an antiquated and archaic language: the logo of this community is literally a dinosaur. But this is not true. Did you that as of the most recent version (ISO 2023), the language has:
- objects and classes
- generics
- concurrent async both locally and remotely (message passing)
Sounds more like a Java or C# than a fossil, doesn't it?
As the "2023" in "ISO 2023" implies, the language has been evol
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COBOL @programming.dev Pigeon @programming.dev COBOL Market Shown to be Three Times Larger than Previously Estimated in New Independent Survey
www.microfocus.com COBOL Market Shown to be Three Times Larger than Previously Estimated in New Independent Survey | Micro FocusCOBOL Market Shown to be Three Times Larger than Previously Estimated in New Independent Survey
A common statistic I see quoted about COBOL is that there are "more than 200 billion lines of COBOL in existence with an extimated 5 billion of new code [written] annually". This statistic comes from a 1997 study by the Gartner Group. Archive Link Here
A more recent study by Vanson Bourne (commissioned by Micro Focus) in Feburary 2022 estimated that there are actually around 775-850 billion lines of COBOL in daily use. Archive Link Here