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Benno Dec 27, 2024

You, an idiot: "COBOL is a dead language."
Me, a wise person: https://github.com/meyfa/CobolCraft

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A Minecraft server written in COBOL. Contribute to meyfa/CobolCraft development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Peter H Dec 27, 2024

@benno The whole 'this or that programming language is dead' thing irritates me.

COBOL is alive. It's currently 19th on THIOBE (https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/), with a rating just below te likes of Ruby and R.

Which I find funny, because Ruby is one of the languages people told me to switch to because my Visual Basic, PHP and Java apps would get in to trouble because Ruby was growing.

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Benno

@peter_slwk I may have opined on similar things in the past… https://youtu.be/BCqGjGzWI48

"The New COBOL" - Benno Rice (PyCon AU 2019)

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