Ancient language is still the bread-and-butter of mainframe systems

Ancient language is still the bread-and-butter of mainframe systems

  • rem26_art@fedia.io
    42·
    14 days ago

    Anthropic has announced COBOL-specific functionality for its Claude AI bot, and IBM’s investors responded with a resounding 13% drop in stock prices.

    IBM’s investors really have no clue what COBOL is or why it’s still in relevant, do they?

    • CTDummy@piefed.socialEnglish
      17·
      14 days ago

      Yeah give me an hour or two with the documentation and I could write COBOL, look out IBM stocks! Will it be elegant or even coherent COBOL? No. Will it at least not contain heaps of in-built time bombs in the form of bugs and security flaws? Also no, but I could write it. As the other commenter said, fuck with the COBOL wizards at your own peril.