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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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If you’ve never seen an IBM AS/400 machine, don’t feel bad. Most people haven’t. Introduced in 1988 as a mid-range server line, it used a unique object-based operating system and was geared specifically towards business and enterprise customers. Unless you’re a particularly big fan of COBOL you probably won’t have much use for one today, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t worth playing around with if the opportunity presents itself.
So when a local IT company went belly up and was selling their old hardware, including a late 90’s era IBM AS/400e Series, [Rik te Winkel] jumped at the chance …read more
Continue reading Blowing the Dust off of an IBM AS/400 Server
The feature of being easier to write than assembly is often seen as the biggest advantage of high-level programming languages. The other benefit that comes with them is portability. With high-level languages, algorithms can be developed independently from the underlying hardware. This allows software to live on once the hardware becomes obsolete.
The compiler was a concept that was met with resistance when it was first introduced. This was at a time when computers were custom-built machines bearing individual names like ENIAC, UNIVAC and Mark I. A time when the global demand for computers was estimated to be around five …read more
Continue reading Disrupting The Computer Industry Before it Existed: Rear Admiral Grace Hopper