Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 2 years agoNot mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alivelemmy.worldimagemessage-square150fedilinkarrow-up1845arrow-down146
arrow-up1799arrow-down1imageNot mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alivelemmy.worldPotatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 2 years agomessage-square150fedilink
minus-squareBestBouclettes@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 years agoAlso, isn’t COBOL extremely fast ? Which is not necessarily true for newer languages
minus-squareIgnotum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down4·2 years agoRust: am i a joke to you?
minus-squareHawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoI think that’s mostly because of the systems COBOL usually runs on, not so much because of the language
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoYou’re probably thinking of Fortran, which is still used for hardcore number crunching in areas like physics.
Also, isn’t COBOL extremely fast ? Which is not necessarily true for newer languages
Rust: am i a joke to you?
I think that’s mostly because of the systems COBOL usually runs on, not so much because of the language
You’re probably thinking of Fortran, which is still used for hardcore number crunching in areas like physics.