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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No one has mentioned COBOL yet, but COBOL.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The college I went to taught COBOL in 2 mainframe courses, and as far as I'm aware, they still do.

It was either you like it, or you absolutely despise it. It wasn't all the difficult, but it is very different than your standard java, C#, C++, etc, so the syntax really throws people off.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cobol wasn’t that bad… the use of line numbers was weird but at the time it wasn’t unique either. Assembler now… that was a bitch… the operations weren’t exactly intuitive and playing with registers wasn’t my thing. But I could pickup cobol if I was starving no problem :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Assembler or assembly? Just curious because in my computer engineering course we had to create a C based computer that used assembly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

TIL in English it is called assembly 😅 We had C in 2nd year, first was only cobol, assembly and pascal. Fun times :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I remember reading about COBOL devs being able to earn pretty solid incomes. I thought, "Let's check this out." I found a site that did common things in different languages and compared them. Reverse string in ruby. 1 line. Reverse string in COBOL. 40-50 lines. "Ehh.. Maybe I don't want to learn this after all."