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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Replying to @zeynep
The unemployment systems are likely built on COBOL, considering they’re pretty legacy technology.
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Replying to @mergesort
Hah. That sounds like something useful to do! Dunno, if I were in NJ, I'd probably like nothing better than getting lost in that kind of headspace, debugging ancient code right about now. Pandemic, what pandemic?
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Replying to @zeynep @mergesort
Not so much debugging as upgrading for new functions.
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Replying to @slvrfnx @mergesort
Even better. (That was the reason I learned COBOL; I added functions to existing ancient software...)
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I pity anyone who ever has to tinker with any of my old work - Fortran, unix, COBOL, Ada, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, VB, python and more...
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Yes but I was broke and the work was
. I was broke enough not to notice whatever suffering I may have been going through.
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