Wait, what? What's the context for this call? Weirdly, I know COBOL. Eons ago, I learned it for a job that was fairly lucrative, well, for my very broke self. This call is right next to my dream of volunteering to do an emergency lit review when they call for a doctor on board.https://twitter.com/manicode/status/1246497036389793792 …
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ouch! Thankfully missed that era. From what I heard, code had to written very cleverly to manage limited memory, which made it extremely difficult to read/debug.
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Assembly, C, sure. COBOL is kinda... COBOL. It's not hard to learn, look up some code and you'll see. Most COBOL code I saw was pretty straightforward.
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- no internet or Google --> had to know language really well - very limited memory --> had to be super efficient - shared computers --> had to debug by hand + wait for the computer There are so many borderline legendary stories about eking more efficiency out with old code.
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