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Programming and Scripting => Projects and Discussion => Topic started by: vezzy on December 22, 2013, 08:32:29 PM

Title: At long last, you can write web applications in COBOL
Post by: vezzy on December 22, 2013, 08:32:29 PM

http://azac.pl/cobol-on-wheelchair/ (http://azac.pl/cobol-on-wheelchair/)

Welcome to the future.

Title: Re: At long last, you can write web applications in COBOL
Post by: bluechill on January 02, 2014, 07:21:44 PM

Quote from: vezzy on December 22, 2013, 08:32:29 PM

http://azac.pl/cobol-on-wheelchair/ (http://azac.pl/cobol-on-wheelchair/)

Welcome to the future.

You mean the past?

Title: Re: At long last, you can write web applications in COBOL
Post by: Phage on January 02, 2014, 11:05:40 PM

Interesting? Maybe for some hard core programming fans. Useful? Not at all.

Title: Re: At long last, you can write web applications in COBOL
Post by: vezzy on January 03, 2014, 04:01:45 AM

Quote from: Phage on January 02, 2014, 11:05:40 PM

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?

Title: Re: At long last, you can write web applications in COBOL
Post by: Kulverstukas 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Cobol is kinda outdated?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

Title: Re: At long last, you can write web applications in COBOL
Post by: Deque 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.

Title: Re: At long last, you can write web applications in COBOL
Post by: vezzy on January 03, 2014, 04:01:26 PM

You guys actually took this seriously? Damn.