Mastodawn

I posted about the Claude Code leak on LinkedIn and almost immediately someone attacked me about my criticism. They tried the "take a look at COBOL and get back to me" angle.

Buddy. I've written COBOL. I spent several years working almost daily with a 3-million-line monstrosity of a COBOL program. I was working on another app that interfaced with it, but in that work I occasionally had to read the code and in a few cases modify it. Granted I haven't spent as much time looking at the leaked Claude Code source code (and won't lol), but nevertheless I confidently declare that Claude Code is worse. "Spaghetti code" doesn't come close to describing this thing.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #ClaudeCode #ClaudeCodeLeak #Anthropic #Claude #tech #dev #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment #software #COBOL #LinkedIn

Markus Eisele 3d ago

COBOL on a MacBook? Yes, really.

I took a legacy COBOL workload and modernized it using Java + the Foreign Function & Memory API (FFM). No mainframe needed.

This is a practical way to bridge old and new systems without rewriting everything.

👉 https://www.the-main-thread.com/p/cobol-java-ffm-modernization-macbook

#Java #Quarkus #COBOL #Modernization #FFM #OpenJDK

HackerNoon Mar 25

Easy COBOL Migrator converts COBOL to C++, Java, C#, Python, Rust, and Go with a multi-stage compiler pipeline and offline desktop workflow. https://hackernoon.com/i-built-a-cobol-migration-tool-that-outputs-6-languages-with-zero-cloud-dependencies #cobol

I Built a COBOL Migration Tool That Outputs 6 Languages With Zero Cloud Dependencies | HackerNoon

Easy COBOL Migrator converts COBOL to C++, Java, C#, Python, Rust, and Go with a multi-stage compiler pipeline and offline desktop workflow.

Tobsan Mar 24

Here's the lineup for the first day of foss-north in RunAn. Tickets are still available: https://foss-north.se/2026/tickets.html

#fossnorth #cobol #opennebula #cryptpad #fsfe #postgresql

Aethra Lux a.k.a. Nádia Mar 24

https://bsky.app/profile/admirablewomen.bsky.social/post/3mhr3n3i3qf24

#women #womeninstem #COBOL #feminism

Admirable Women (@admirablewomen.bsky.social)

Computer scientist Jean E. Sammet (b. #OTD in 1928): +Developed the FORMAC programming language, 1962 +Co-developer, COBOL programming language +1st female president, Assoc for Computing Machinery, 1974, world's largest educational & scientific computing society #WomenInSTEM #computerscience #WHM

Bluesky Social

Levka Mar 20

#COBOL

"COBOL Is the Asbestos of Programming Languages

The most widely adopted computer language in history, COBOL is now causing a host of problems. It's also dangerously difficult to remove.

EARLY IN THE Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old programming language and needed to be updated to handle the hundreds of thousands of claims. Trouble was, few of the state’s employees knew how to do that. And the crisis went beyond New Jersey, just one of many states that depended on these unwieldy systems. By one rough calculation, COBOL’s inefficiencies cost the US GDP $105 billion in 2020.

You might think New Jersey would have replaced its system after this—and that Covid was COBOL’s last gasp. Not quite. The state’s new unemployment system came with a number of quality-of-life improvements, but on the backend, it was still made possible by a mainframe running the ancient language."

https://archive.ph/H0IEa

Snagburz Mar 17

The object-oriented version of #COBOL is called:

ADD 1 TO COBOL

#programminLanguage #object_oriented #computers

flo Mar 17

War COBOL nicht diese uralte Programmiersprache, die (u.a.) im Banken-Umfeld eingesetzt wird und nicht so richtig durch aktuelle Programmiersprachen ersetzt werden kann?

Ich habe hier ein Stellenangebot gefunden, das vielleicht für entsprechende Programmierer:innen interessant sein könnte:

"(Senior) Entwickler COBOL (all genders) - Exxeta

Link zum Stellenangebot:
https://jobs.exxeta.com/job/senior-entwickler-cobol-all-genders/d4b8b949-d3d0-4f66-979c-da29139de615

#Stellenangebot #Jobsuche #Programmierung #COBOL #Berlin #Braunschweig #Dresden #Düsseldorf #Essen #Frankfurt am Main #Hamburg #Karlsruhe #Leipzig #Mannheim #München #Nürnberg #Stuttgart