Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 1 year agoNot mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alivelemmy.worldimagemessage-square145fedilinkarrow-up1836arrow-down144
arrow-up1792arrow-down1imageNot mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alivelemmy.worldPotatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 1 year agomessage-square145fedilink
minus-squareBestBoucletteslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoAlso, isn’t COBOL extremely fast ? Which is not necessarily true for newer languages
minus-squareHawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year 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-up3·1 year 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
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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.