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[–] Melusine@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 3 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Isn't Delphi open source? Imagine using nice language when you can use COBOL on IBM and pay a shit ton amount of money!

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Its Freemium, at least it was like that. Using COBOL should be regulated by Geneva conventions at this point.

[–] Melusine@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Trust me, I did a mainframe gig. It lasted a few months before I almost bored out XD

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Melusine@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Madam please ^^

You should know that COBOL still evolve and the last version of it is 2018 I think (maybe one in the 2020s) and is object oriented since 2003. The problem is that ibm's COBOL is note like 62 (at least where I worked)

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 1 points 20 minutes ago

I see. Thanks for clarification. I never worked with COBOL myself but have couple of folks on the team who worked with COBOL in banking back during 2000s who still have full-on vietnam flashbacks over it. I guess the COBOL they worked with was an older iteration than you described.

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