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Whenever the topic is raised in popular media about porting a codebase written in an ‘antiquated’ programming language like Fortran or COBOL, very few people tend to object to this …read more Continue reading Porting COBOL Code and the Trouble With Ditching Domain Specific Languages
When you think of languages you might read about on Hackaday, COBOL probably isn’t one of them. The language is often considered mostly for business applications and legacy ones, at …read more Continue reading Minecraft in…COBOL?
Generative AI comes to mainframe application modernization with a model trained on more than 80 code languages and 1.5 trillion tokens of data. Continue reading Watsonx Code Assistant Adds COBOL-to-Java Translations on IBM Z
Anyone who has ever made a living writing code has probably had some version of the following drilled into their head: “Always write your code so the next person can …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Critical Code Reading, 70s Style
Perhaps rather unexpectedly, on the 14th of March this year the GCC mailing list received an announcement regarding the release of the first ever COBOL front-end for the GCC compiler. …read more Continue reading Making The Case For COBOL
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys pan for gold in a week packed with technological treasure. The big news is Apple/Google are working on contact tracing using BTLE. From adoption, to privacy, to efficacy, there’s a lot to unpack here and many of the details have yet to take …read more
Continue reading Hackaday Podcast 064: The COBOL Cabal, the Demoscene Bytes, and the BTLE Cure
Is history doomed to repeat itself? Or rather, is there really any doubt that it isn’t, considering recent events that made the news? I am of course talking about New Jersey’s call for COBOL programmers to fix their ancient unemployment system, collapsing under the application spikes caused by the COVID-19 …read more
Continue reading COBOL Isn’t The Issue: A Misinterpreted Crisis
Anyone who worked in the tech field and lived through the Y2K bug era will no doubt recall it as a time seasoned with a confusing mix of fear and optimism and tempered with a healthy dose of panic, as companies rushed to validate that systems would pass the rollover …read more
The field of computer science has undeniably changed the world for virtually every single person by now. Certainly for you as Hackaday reader, but also for everyone around you, whether they’re working in the field themselves, or are simply enjoying the fruits of convenience it bears. What was once a …read more
Continue reading Tony Brooker And Autocode – The First High-level Language
In my monthly wrap-up, I will share what happened in the world of Azure IaaS over the last month. We’re closing in on the end of “Titanium” – the current October – March sprint in Microsoft’s DevOps calendar. And Microsoft Build is not too far away. Things have been relatively quiet since early November, […]
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