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At long last, you can write web applications in COBOL
« on: December 22, 2013, 08:32:29 pm »
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Re: At long last, you can write web applications in COBOL
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2014, 11:05:40 pm »
Interesting? Maybe for some hard core programming fans. Useful? Not at all.
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Re: At long last, you can write web applications in COBOL
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2014, 04:01:45 am »
Interesting? Maybe for some hard core programming fans. Useful? Not at all.

You've never heard of COBOL before?

"hard core programming fans"

What the fuck?
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Re: At long last, you can write web applications in COBOL
« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2014, 07:16:50 am »
Cobol is kinda outdated? however it's still used in some banks that don't want to invest in an upgrade and instead keeps grandpas to code shit in Cobol.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cobol

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Re: At long last, you can write web applications in COBOL
« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2014, 08:30:46 am »
Of course it is not useful. It was hobby project. You can tell by reading the last remarks on that site:

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Is it safe?

Of course not! I hacked this together over one night, and without any real knowledge of the language. I suppose the code is utterly horrible.

Btw, you should probably delete all .cbl files after final compilation.

And no one serious would choose a name like that, would he?

However: I like to look into old languages too, it is just interesting how things where and how they evolved. This is a nice example for an utterly useless, but interesting project.

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Re: At long last, you can write web applications in COBOL
« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2014, 04:01:26 pm »
You guys actually took this seriously? Damn.
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